Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles "I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm a fellow that likes art and likes memories. I think it's fair they called this a journal, a visual journal, and so the art is really a, kind of like at the end of the day I'll write a, something that I want to remember the feeling of and that's what the, the paintings are the same way. Almost all of them generated by wanting to preserve a memory or create a memory. The actual painting time, it can be as little as 20 minutes but you, you have to then go do something else between the drying, between the washes. I'm embarrassed because my assistants who are here are nice enough to have cataloged them. I would have told you a "few," they tell me it's more than 1000. Yeah, and that means of, that's the ones I didn't throw away so they're, but they've, about 1000, yeah." "There are three journals in the exhibition to give an example of the importance of record-keeping in his work but then of the works that we chose I sat down with President Eyring and went through each and every one and there were some that just seemed very obviously about memories--it was his wife labeled that way--but what was so fascinating to me is you know, images of Paris, he would say, "Oh, this is about Kathy." Or images of Scotland, "This is about a memory with Kathy." So, those memories emerged largely through interview and through conversation." "I can't resist occasionally trying to capture a memory, particularly a feeling of a memory, and I, so I'm driven to it, I often feel a little guilty when I stop to even do it so it's, it's a balance that I, it just comes. It's the difference between a balance between the things I, I know the Lord wants me to do and then some memories that I want to preserve. It's just trying to do only things that matter and then also being sure that you make a record of things that really matter that might later on be valuable and that's almost all this is that kind of thing."
A2 US memory kathy preserve journal balance record President Eyring Watercolor Paintings on Display at Church History Museum 16 2 So Ling Lee posted on 2019/03/24 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary