Snow took special pride in being a child of Canada’s two solitudes
vivacious and outspoken Quebec-born mother, Marie Antoinette – a gifted classical pianist who gave him unconditional love. His more reserved father, the Toronto-born Bradley, lost sight in one eye when Snow was a child and became blind when his son was 15. As an adult, Snow retained strong memories of Bradley’s fortitude in adversity. He was certain that his father’s blindness and his mother’s skills as a pianist had made him an artist.art.
Snow was an exacting reader of the drafts of my manuscript. He had perfect recall of the creation of each of his works and chided me when my descriptions were not specific enough.Halfway through my research on his life, Snow and I visited the Toronto Carpet Factory building, where his large studio had been transformed over the years into a storage space for tape recordings, various types of equipment and early works he had not sold or had decided to keep.
One of my last memories of Snow is of the time Early Snow was being installed. The set-up met with his approval, although he insisted that one of the large sculptures had to be elevated slightly off the floor to display properly. When we toured the exhibition, he inspected each entry carefully. Several times he observed, “That one still works,” or,
“I still like that one.” As we continued our stroll, I beheld two Michael Snows: the prodigy who had created a series of masterworks, and the older man who took pleasure in revisiting his early life. Snow laughed a great deal during our conversations and sometimes poked fun at himself. He reminisced about his dead friends and those who were left. He spoke lovingly of his wife, Peggy Gale, and of their son, Alexander. He was insatiably curious. He was a deeply intellectual person who carefully conceptualized each of his works and told me in detail of the pleasure he had received in making them.
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