Ross Gibson and Garry Pumfrey: Small to Medium Enterprise

1 April 2013

There’s a face that can’t blink hovering on hooks above a door.

Some fools totter off the nature strip, others trip across the camber.  Warmth here keeps a soft throng, but cold can bring a hard clout.

Archer St Crossing Archer Sreet Crossing | Garry Pumfrey | oil on linen | 89.5 x 119.5cm | 2010

Drive a thousand miles at breakneck, at least until your nerve folds.

Act like there’s a bullet in a soft cyst and its floating near your spleen.

Sketch a heat-map of the gone souls.  Call it ’empty’.  Call it ‘open’?

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About Ross Gibson


Ross Gibson is Centenary Professor of Creative & Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. Recent works include Stone Grown Cold (Cordite Books), Changescapes (UWAP), Memoryscopes (UWAP) and the film The Farmer's Cinematheque (with Malcolm McKinnon).

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