An Artist’s Escape from Alzheimer’s- the Paintings of Lester Potts.
Dr. Potts, President of the Cognitive Dynamics Foundation, and contributor to CASA Network’s writers panel, shares the amazing story of his father’s experience with art in Alzheimer’s. This video shows the progression of Lester Potts’s art from early to late stage Alzheimer’s disease. A rural Alabama sawmiller who had never shown artistic talent until after the diagnosis, Lester paints watercolors which change in characteristic ways. He loses form and color, becoming more abstract. At the end he paints in only blues and greens, then loses color completely. His last image is of his earliest childhood memory: a saw. You will be inspired by what you see. A rich testimony reminding us that we are never done until God takes us home.