Documentary on Blind Falmouth Painter Reveals Story of Creative Persistence

Documentary on blind Falmouth painter reveals story of creative persistence

'Final Frontier' features artist Denis Boudreau as he grapples with haunting memories of war through abstract painting while visually impaired. The documentary short premiered at the Maine International Film Festival and won an award.

The Painter of the Right

Thomas Kinkade’s paintings “typically feature a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel,” Joan Didion once wrote. “Every window lit, to lurid effect, as if the interior of the structure might be on fire.” A recent social-media post from the Department of Homeland Security shared Kinkade’s “Morning Pledge” alongside the words “Protect the Homeland”—a pa…