Remembrance: An Artist's View of Artist Parents, Marjorie Powers White, Willard David White Jr.

In 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.After 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