Joanna White
“Dressing for the Recital”
Fine details of “Dressing for the Recital” are reconstructed or imagined (we did not own a Big Wheel) but the frozen moment and the real thing my son said are indelibly etched, leading me both to view the scene through his eyes and to understand the effect his reaction had on my awareness of myself as a performer with an art to realize and transmit to an audience