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Speaker 1: Ephemeral production of My Heart three D audio for Felix Vasure.

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Speaker 1: Listen with that phones. If you had to leave your

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Speaker 1: life behind and take only the things you could carry,

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Speaker 1: what would you choose. On today's bonus episode, we introduce

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Speaker 1: you to ephemeral producer Trevor Young, whom you'll hear more

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Speaker 1: from this season. Trevor recently had the chance to visit

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Speaker 1: his grandmother, a professional artist based in Malibu, California. Over

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Speaker 1: five decades, she amassed an impressive body of work, paintings, sketches, drawings, illustrations.

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Speaker 1: She was also an avid art collector, and then she

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Speaker 1: lost all of it. The horribly destructive wildfires then engulfed

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Speaker 1: nearly two million acres of California that year, well almost

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Speaker 1: all of it. Honestly, if it wasn't from my neighbor,

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Speaker 1: I would be dead. It was one o'clock in the morning.

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Speaker 1: The phone rang, and everything was going fast. The phone

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Speaker 1: And she said, the fire has jumped the freeway. We

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Speaker 1: haven't much time, and that's when I packed everything, and

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Speaker 1: she's absolutely right. We didn't have much time. When I

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Speaker 1: There was just blazing. That's my grandma. Her name is

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Speaker 1: Yvonne Scherbach, and she's been a professional artist and educator

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Speaker 1: her entire adult life. She's worked and lived most of

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Speaker 1: as you just heard, she was forced to evacuate her

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Speaker 1: Woolsey wildfires. When I found out what had happened, I

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Speaker 1: couldn't leave it. I had grown up visiting that house

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Speaker 1: every summer. It was a magical place. The house looked

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Speaker 1: like an art gallery. Every wall had paintings on it.

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Speaker 1: Many of them, of course, were mine, but I collected,

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Speaker 1: of course, I collected. I collected from other illustrators, other artists.

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Speaker 1: I had paintings, drawings everywhere, and they were delightful. It

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Speaker 1: was a wonderful environment to live in. More than anything,

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Speaker 1: that house was a testament to everything my grandma had

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Speaker 1: achieved over five decades of work. Just looking around it

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Speaker 1: was easy to see what a successful career she had had.

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Speaker 1: As she told me, she knew very early on in

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Speaker 1: life that art was her calling. I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: and I think that's true of musicians, it's true of writers.

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Speaker 1: You don't have an Aha moment. It's just what you're

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Speaker 1: born to do, and quite frankly, you will do anything

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Speaker 1: quickly discovered what she was capable of. When I graduated,

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Speaker 1: all I knew is that I wanted to be an illustrator.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'd studied. And to tell you the truth,

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Speaker 1: I had a job before I even graduated, and almost

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Speaker 1: immediately I was illustrating books for children. I illustrated for

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Speaker 1: ten years two books a year for Scholastic, The Math Monsters.

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Speaker 1: As an illustrator, really, what I was really doing as

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Speaker 1: I saw the movie called Ms Potter with Renee Zelwerger

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Speaker 1: because then I didn't feel like such an idiot. I

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Speaker 1: it's very funny. You get connected to the very things

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Speaker 1: Because in every artist, there lives two artists. The one

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Speaker 1: My grandma spent much of her life teaching art. She

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Speaker 1: My grandma finally retired from teaching in the spring of

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Speaker 1: The flames ignited on November eight and quickly ravage Simi

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Speaker 1: At first, my grandma thought she was safe in her

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Speaker 1: that I can never replace. I could never redo that,

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Speaker 1: of things, because our things are not just things. There

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Speaker 1: are things that remind us of something or someone. They

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Speaker 1: Yvonne Sherbock is a California based artist and retired educator.

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Speaker 1: She now lives in Ventura, California, and despite losing fifty

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Speaker 1: more every day. This episode of Ephemeral was written by

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