Conservator does his best to restore beauties of past

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During the first months after his son’s death, he says, he walked the streets, despondent, unable to work. “I was practically howling. Of all the stuff that can happen to human beings, losing a child - the pain is so unbearable.”

At some point, however, he surrendered to the mourning. “You let it flow through you. And that’s really liberating, honestly.”

He has found solace in his faith, the intense, meditative work of his restoration projects, the soothing company of his wife, daughter and two stepchildren, and the indulgence of his alter-ego. (He paraglides and holds a black belt in karate - plus a third-place trophy from the 2004 World Tan Soo Do Karate championship.)

And during the last few weeks, he has started painting again: a Pieta-like portrait of an agonized man holding a lifeless body draped across his knees.

It rests on a massive easel in the center of the airy room on the third floor of his building. A punching bag hangs from the ceiling. His marmalade cat, Rudy - a gift from his son - pads along the coarse, paint-spattered floorboards to his litter box.”

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