Fathers Love
“As a teenage youth I romanticised of what love was to be, how was I to know that my true real love is a wife plus family. I could never have known that this immense love I have inside, without a complete family it would probably just hide. She holds my hand as I do […]…
Fragile
“I learned that “He who forgets the past is condemned to repeat it”, but where I really suffered in my life is never knowing about my father’s and grandfather’s past until after I had made the same mistakes. I hope I can admit my mistakes to my sons and help them with a bit of […]…
Friend or Foe
“Is my body the antithesis of the masculine ideal? How do we treat the trash in our visual landscape? Do we toss it in the dump or do we use our greater strength to lift it into the sun and the blue sky above? Would you choose to lift me up and be my wings […]…
Ghosts
“When you have to sink or swim, treading water isn’t an option. Lead, or follow, or get out of the way. I force myself into challenging situations to see what I’m capable of because somewhere, luring over me, is the fear that I’ll turn out like my father: a marginal person who failed to take […]…
Griled or Battered
“Money – two jobs, fish shop and retail store Dream – in a band with our first demo CD Future – complete Psychology studies Back up – management position in retail hedging my bets Love – Don’t want to imagine her not there, all that is good and all that is bad doesn’t really matter […]…
Homeless
“Home means: love, security and place where you feel like you belong. You can live in a mansion and still be homeless” Participant – Joe, 2006 Joe lives in Bondi, where he was married, where his only son John was concieved and where he and his then wife were rescued by the lifeguards. 30 of […]…
HSC
“The HSC had spent the whole year consuming everything so the idea of the last exam was a relief. I was thinking about a lot of things, some things were very blas?and seem trivial such as ‘jeez a drink would be good right now.’ But even that seemed important as if it was the last […]…
Icescream
“Thursday, March 11, 1999… the day that the world I knew was torn apart. It started like any other day, but by 3:15 PM had become a nightmare … the phone call from my near hysterical wife. Our 13 year old daughter had been burned in a school science lab accident and had been rushed […]…
If
“I wish that I was a very big bird. I wish I will be very very tall. I hope I will be a good driver. I want to be a very good man” Participant – Dieter, 2001 “I want to be a policeman. I would like to be a Cheeta.” Participant – Liam, 2001 “I […]…
Invisible Man
Although openly gregarious, I am a “private person” when it comes to laying bare my emotions and inner thoughts. Perhaps this is why I have the facility to attract and collect people; Participant – Philip Sharp, 2001 Philip asked me do create a portrait of him. Every time I tried to find out who he […]…