On most nights, you’ll find Erin Brady Worsham in front of a computer creating art into the wee hours of the morning. She remains motionless, continually looking surprised as she raises and lowers her eyebrows.
Worsham, 46, has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and is almost completely paralyzed. She “paints” colorful computer-generated paintings by raising and lowering her eyebrows to move a dime-sized sensor taped between her eyes. The sensor interfaces with a computer and translates her surprised looks – sometimes as many as 400,000 per painting – into art. While ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, has taken Worsham’s ability to move and speak, it has not taken her creativity or her ability to communicate.
“A picture can be a powerful form of communication. It transcends mere words and can speak to each viewer differently, within their own frame of reference,” said Worsham via e-mail. “Uniquely, for me as an artist, art allows me to spontaneously communicate with people – something I’m unable to do verbally.”
Worsham, a trained artist and actress who grew up in the East End and graduated from Sacred Heart Academy and Western Kentucky University, has become nationally recognized for her artwork.
She lives in Nashville with her husband, Curry, and son, Daniel, and was in Louisville last week/files/storyimages/for the opening of her “Artist Always” exhibition at Kosair Children’s Hospital.
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