Drudgework
2 creative works found
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Bloke walking up stairs of a block of flats at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, carrying a bag. A photo from a photography class assignment in 1994, and one of my faves ever. Dark and enigmatic, but emblematic of single-minded purpose, metaphor of life’s journey. Dig the repeating cellular and tooth elements. He is walking into the maw of the beast. Dig likewise, the directionality implied by the arrow-heads formed, big, black arrows opposing the man’s forward movement, light arrows formed of concrete faces, buoying him upward, corresponding dark spaces threaten to drag back down. Counterposed forces, on the stairs themselves grinding on each other like shark-teeth set to lacerate a surfer’s legs. Somehow he stays afloat. Does he have any choice? Up, turn. Up, turn. His path is layed out for him. Where does it lead? Ultimately, back down—Newton, 1687. Up is a dead end. I could shit on like this for hours. There should be more like this. Please take more? Hand-processed b&w photo, scanned and digitally restored.
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The government that made it easier for employers to sack people and harder for unions to exist, under the monicker of ‘work choices’ was voted down in a recent election. I am not even sure whether this poster is one from the Government, the unions, or a satirical artwork pasted over the top of one of those… grey area… well this image is one that sums up what I think of most people’s choice of what they call ‘work’. The premise that we must flagellate ourselves and each other in the name of ‘productivity’, by for example housing entire communities in giant, ecologically disastrous warehouses and bonding them to cold-call people who do not even want to buy the f*ing useless shampoo, should not need me to comment. What is going on in your heads, people? For me, this image sums up the situation. (tip: Look carefully in the shadow .. )
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