{"product_id":"remembrance-an-artists-view-of-artist-parents-marjorie-powers-white-willard-david-white-jr","title":"Remembrance: An Artist's View of Artist Parents, Marjorie Powers White, Willard David White Jr.","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this memoir Catherine White examines the aesthetic influences of her sculptor father, Willard David White Jr., and her printmaker mother, Marjorie Powers White. In thirty-four lushly illustrated vignettes she has selected manifestations of their passions to incite focused remembrances of an art- and family-focused life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter our parents are gone, I wonder how do we remember them? One way is by association. My parents imparted to me a love of water. Thus, there is opportunity for remembrance at each immersion—everything from the bathtub, to hiking by a local stream or river, or most powerfully a swim in the ocean. I can sit in my chair where I am able to glimpse our pond as well as my dad's sculptures. It is easy to miss his hand and his jokes. But I don't miss his smoking or his grumpiness. There are, of course, occasional, even desirable waves of sadness. The reality of death is a mirror image to the reality of birth. At birth we are imagining the essence of one who is not yet made, an incipient soul. After a parent's death, their soul lingers. A relationship means love and perhaps irritation, trust as well as doubt. We hope to count on those who are living until the reality that they are no longer here. But their soul remains in the river of our memory, forever bobbing in the day's current.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn excerpt about Willard from \u003ci\u003eDrawing Wobbles\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe treated himself to the same kind of wobble and view of imperfection when he drew his self-portraits. The paper caught his bald head with the wrinkled brow and the ears that stuck out. With a tender hand, an eye for reality, and a love of life, his drawings of himself and his family capture a devotion to both artistic voice and expression alongside the art of raising a family in all of its beauty and tensions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn excerpt about Marjorie from \u003ci\u003eA Stream of Shapes\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a shape maker, print maker, and poet she consistently worked on the fringes of her life. Her journal was always on the kitchen table or in her purse. When we kids were little, she carried a sketchbook to the playground and made drawings of the children in the sandbox, on the slide, or in the swing. She found poetry in our movement. She created with her vulnerabilities as a woman-mother-wife. But as she worked, she also felt that it was totally possible to coexist as an artist-mother-wife-daughter. Yet, it was never simple to find balance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":54526389256467,"sku":"9780972182133","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9780972182133ita_02c8f40d-e1fb-4478-8080-0a1aef3f8026.jpg?v=1785852495","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/remembrance-an-artists-view-of-artist-parents-marjorie-powers-white-willard-david-white-jr","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}