Ropion Trilogy: Prologue
A LONG BEGINNING
This is personal.
Ever since my teenage years I’ve kept a small journal for sketching, jotting down interesting words and phrases, and dreaming of my future. Even when I grew up and became a sculptor, these notations from my youth were often starting points for new projects.
While learning English as a second language in the late 70’s, I often read newspaper or magazine articles from American publications as a way to grow more comfortable with my new language.
One serendipitous day I was reading a Newsweek article detailing a popular hairstyle and a phrase jumped off the page and into my imagination. This lyrical phrase, “messy sexy just rolled out of bed” immediately painted a picture in my mind of an intimate moment in someone’s life. I wrote it down in my journal so I wouldn’t forget.