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Katya Reimann : 2020

Katya has been telling stories, building worlds, and creating the art to go with them for most of her life.  

The content of these pages reflect her diverse interests over time.

Artwork in the Family

4/11/2012

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Picture
New post up on William P. Reimann's website, with a click-through to the newest uploaded image. It's a drawing he made for me a few years back, done during the visit when I hassled him to produce individual drawings for each of his five grandchildren.  He did those... then made one for me as well.

<= Drawing of Kudus, dedicated to Katya


One of my greatest pleasures in webmastering my father's site is that I get to spend time looking at, and thinking about, his artwork and his creativity. 

Getting to take a fresh, close look at this particular drawing (which is, I believe, the only piece of art Dad has, to date, signed/dedicated to me personally) while I struggled to get a good photo allowed me a chance to bring some new thoughts forward today.

Time passes so quickly.

One of the (minor but enduring) regrets in my life is that I have seldom taken the time out to hassle/remind/NAG my Dad to produce personal works for myself and my children. This really is something I need to remind myself to do, particularly insofar as the kids are concerned.

It's so easy to forget that my children never knew my father prior to his retirement from teaching at Harvard. They never saw him at work on one of his monumentally scaled sculptures. That whole part of his life--forty years or fifty years--is something they can only know from stories.

He continues to do (in my opinion) amazing work and beautiful sculptures, but the exhausting, mind-bogglingly large pieces are no longer where his focus lies. So--it's up to me to share the stories, or to make sure that my kids know how much fun his and my own life have been, working as artists.

The updates to the Will Reimann website are for everyone, but at their heart, they are in a big way about making Dad knowable to his grandchildren.
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carolyn randall diviacchi old student...
7/1/2012 03:05:25 am

Hi Will and Family,
hope you are well. we are fine, Terry graduated from Pitzer, whew.

like this site, like the drawings, of course! admittedly i only visit facebook about twice a year, am at diviachic@gmail.com
also write because i
am taking a 'drawing into painting' class with some guy named Stopforth at 3 floor VES -HU this summer -hopefully to get my drawing sensitive to reflected light, or not.
otherwise the same...moved schools this year...now teaching art at the Hennigan in Jamaica Plain, will begin in the fall. I had my 7th grade kids painting really large this year...they seemed to enjoy it... many proved to be natural painters, that was fun to watch happen. Also, there is some granite company in New hampshire that is going out of business and selling a whole lot of granite, if you are looking for any...
i do wonder surprisingly often how you guys are doing so it was grand to see the photo of you online! I am about the same weight as in college, but it is distributed differently at 57! oh well!

take care,
carolyn (randall) diviacchi

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