October 08, 2005
When I saw this image it reminded me of summertime in South Australia:

Shelly Hicks, Boys Fishing Weekend, 2005
Tis a world of many years ago that still hangs on:

Shelly Hicks, Summer Sunlovers, 2004
These old beach shacks are now being replaced with two story airconditioned McMansions. What we have is something more than a landscape to be observed or captured by the artist's eye. This is a representation of our historical memory of a simple mode of life that is now slowly fading away. Yesrterday's beachside shacks on the edge of wilderness have given away to the beach suburbs of today.
Alas the HIcks' images say nothing about sun damaged skin and skin cancer arising from the sunloving.
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