Hollow cores, other findings and one last chance
October 23, 2008
“The lists were really everything,” he says, “from completely mundane things, or emotionally tender, or slightly charged things. I just sit and, using a nib, dipping in an inkwell, I start with 001 and continue until I fill a page. It’s fairly random: all the things I feel, me in that moment making them, going in and out of memories. Oftentimes the radio’s on and I’ll catch certain words and that becomes a part of it too.”
Hollow cores also marks an ending for Ropson, a record of the years he’s spent in Montreal as he moves away from it. Though his destination is, again, open-ended, he does express a wish to return to his hometown in Newfoundland, to revisit and reevaluate.
“Sometimes before I know where I’m going, I have to return to where I came from,” he says. “I’d like to take a portion of this work expand on it and take it home, partially take it back to there and see how it shifts.”
Hollow cores, other findings and one last chance will be on display from Fri October 24 – Sat November 29 at SKOL in Montreal.
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