Artist With Paraplegia Uses His Mouth To Paint Hawaii's Vivid Colors On Canvas

One of the more demoralizing times of Moses Hamilton's life was when he tried to paint in early 2003. He was participating in an art program at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific in Hawaii. A teacher was trying to show a group of people with disabilities how to paint with their mouths. Hamilton -- who was 26 years old and recovering from a car accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down -- was given a mouthpiece attached to a paintbrush. He struggled to stroke it over the canvas...