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April 05, 2004
It is the 1950s account of urban life updated is it not?
R. Dickerson, Frequent Fliers, 2003
Suppressed irritation? I've been on the shuttle service a fair bit this last month. The people commuting are a little more joyous than this.
It is the dark side of the Sydney sun:
R. Dickerson, Winter in Sydney, 2003
There is little connection between people.
Robert Dickerson, Securing the mortgage, 2003
We are sealed in our inner worlds in an alienating city:
Robert Dickerson, North-shore woman, 2003
Australia in 2004 is a lot better off in terms of material of goods that the Australia of the 1950s. But it is emotionally bleak.
What does this work say about our cultural identity? John Howard considers the deabte closed. Apparently we are over all that national identity stuff.
The Australians in Dickerson's work do not seem to be proud of their history or heritage. Maybe the work is a form of cultural jamming.
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