“Quite a few of my paintings come from the research that I’m doing on another painting. By the time I finish a painting, I have an idea for my next painting. “Celebration” started just that way. I was downtown going through some of the thousands of old photographs in the State’s collection, which was a very time consuming process. Nowadays all you have to do is get online and they are all there for you to see. Back then, as I was going through all of the old photographs of downtown Salt Lake I came across one particular photograph of the Salt Lake Temple with an American flag that hung on the south side of the temple.”

“The photograph was very intriguing, and it brought to mind several questions. “