Saturday, July 29, 2023
Missing dear Mai so much – highly skilled clothes maker, creative original designer, accomplished artist, free and independent spirit. Marlene first met up with her in Grade 9 at Donovan Collegiate, and the friendship has endured all these years. She remembers Mai visiting her in London in the late ‘60s, coming back from N. Africa, and Mai sitting in Trafalgar Square knitting her a cap based on what she’d seen in Morocco. Marlene still wears that cap, and other of Mai’s designs. John remembers his first meeting with her, arriving exhausted from a transatlantic flight, finding he’d exchanged cold and rainy London for brilliant sunshine on Lake Ontario, the sailboat creaming across Toronto Harbour, Mai feeding her baby, pot smoke streaming away in the breeze. Both remember fondly her various houses on the Island, her cramped workshop in Liberty Village, her brightness of spirit. R.I. P., dear Mai.
Marlene & John Caryl
