news | Friday January 10, 2025
The Manitoulin Expositor provided in-depth coverage of the Gore Bay Launch of Conversations with the Kagawong River by sophie anne edwards.
From the article: “As Sophie took the stage, she admitted to ‘feeling emotional’ and to ‘choking up’ on the culmination of several years of effort in the production of Conversations with the Kagawong River. ‘I always wanted to write. It took me until age 50 to do it. There is time to write, people!’ she laughed. ‘Coming to writing after so long, I finally allowed myself the space.’
As she read, images from her book were projected in a continuous stream onto a large screen beside her. The reading became a visual performance – scenes of the River with Sophie’s scattered letters and texts floating, sinking, disintegrating; the artist underwater; paddling through lily pads and cattails; tracing on bark; we experience what she saw and heard along the River’s edge, we feel the water as at one point she dove in, we consider her artistic responses to the River’s calls, we feel the icy cold, the heat of summer as her words and images resonate through the stillness of the room, like a meditation.”
Read the full article here.