I have three pieces in “So Long and Thanks for All The Fish,” an upcoming exhibition by

I have three pieces in “So Long and Thanks for All The Fish,” an upcoming exhibition by artists who grew up in and subsequently left Bunbury, Western Australia.I guess I’m not exactly Robinson Crusoe when I say that high school wasn’t a good time for me. I hadn’t worked out how to write songs, or play guitar, or draw, or do any of the things that buy me a comfortable degree of sanity now. I was not good at relating to people my age, or communicating in a way that didn’t make people look at me sidelong and edge away into a different discussion. What I was good at was storming: storming around the house, storming out of rooms, and when things got too much, storming across town with a notebook in one hand and our family dalmation on a leash in the other.Some days I attempted to blame my parents for this volatility of mood, some days I blamed what I unfairly considered to be the dazzling vacuity of my peers, and some days I blamed Bunbury itself. I would walk around the outskirts of the town in a boiling rage, glaring at the various local obelisks of interest, dreaming of the day when I would live in a city where a constant influx of interesting and mysterious men would surely fall in love with me and I would somehow develop the technical ability to help me express the strange, blood-warm ideas bubbling in my head.I drew this piece while watching a video of the Bunbury grain silo demolition in 1992. I was a kid that day; my dad took me to go watch it. I’m still trying to work out if I am the kid at 1:16. It looks like me, the shape of my head, but I don’t know.A Drive-In Cinema, 2016, Micron pen on Arches Aquarelle paper. “So Long and Thanks for All The Fish” runs from 14 May - 4 July 2016 at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries.(By Caroline J. Dale). -- source link

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