By the time David Kontra (b. 1956) was nine years old, he was noticing that there was something ver wrong with his eyes. He spent the next several years visiting specialist after specialist in clinics far and wide seeking a definitive diagnosis. Ultimately the experts agreed, he was suffering the effects of Retinitis Pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that would only worsen over time. Though his field of vision is an ever-narrowing tunnel (to the point where now, as he approaches fifty years of age, he is left with less than 5% of his vision in his "good" (left) eye), David has met lifes challenges head on. He graduated from high school in 1974, worked in an auto plant, managed a cafeteria, taught himself to play keyboard, wrote, performed, and recorded original rock music, and now he has taught himself to paint. Since 2002, David Kontra has been painting with the urgency of a man who knows that he is running out of time. Even now he can never really see a completed painting. To see one at all, he must hold it close and scan it with his "good" eye, detail by detail, until the whole comes together in his mind. "Scenes Unseen" is David's solo debut.

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