How to Make a Pearl - the San Francisco man who lives in darkness

For 53 years, John Kapellas enjoyed the bright sky of the western US, but one day he started to burn, blister and break out in rashes whenever he was exposed to light. Now allergic to the entire spectrum of light, Kapellas has spent the last decade living in complete darkness. When one of the side effects of the drugs John was prescribed made him ‘go nuts’, he started drawing large abstract pictures on his walls and playing the piano to calm his mind and soothe the pain. How to Make a Pearl explores Kapellas’ coping mechanisms and how he is turning the ‘grit’ of past trauma into a ‘pearl’ of reflective creativity.

Continue reading... March 02, 2018 at 03:30PM