Item
Filling the time whilst working in fast food
Title (Dublin Core)
Filling the time whilst working in fast food
Disclaimer (Dublin Core)
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Description (Dublin Core)
HIST30060
During this year, I was luck enough to still be able to work in my fast food job due to the JobKeeper program, which saw the government paying the wages of part time and full time staff, as well as certain casuals. I would work 2 to 3 shifts a week in the city, which allowed me time to get out of the house and socialise with my coworkers. Restrictions meant we did not receive many customers, with our main source of income coming from the delivery platforms my boss installed. Despite this work, it did not mean I was able to escape the boredom most faced during the prolonged periods of restrictions, as there is only so much cleaning you can do in the periods where we had no customers. To fill the time, I began recreating famous paintings I could find online in miniature form, using the materials I could find in store, such as white board markers and receipt paper. Pictured here is my attempt at recreating Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ (bottom left), the ‘Great Wave off Kanagawa’ by Hokusai (right), and Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ (top left).
During this year, I was luck enough to still be able to work in my fast food job due to the JobKeeper program, which saw the government paying the wages of part time and full time staff, as well as certain casuals. I would work 2 to 3 shifts a week in the city, which allowed me time to get out of the house and socialise with my coworkers. Restrictions meant we did not receive many customers, with our main source of income coming from the delivery platforms my boss installed. Despite this work, it did not mean I was able to escape the boredom most faced during the prolonged periods of restrictions, as there is only so much cleaning you can do in the periods where we had no customers. To fill the time, I began recreating famous paintings I could find online in miniature form, using the materials I could find in store, such as white board markers and receipt paper. Pictured here is my attempt at recreating Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ (bottom left), the ‘Great Wave off Kanagawa’ by Hokusai (right), and Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ (top left).
Date (Dublin Core)
July 3, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Sasha Longstaff
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Sasha Longstaff
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HIST30060
Partner (Dublin Core)
University of Melbourne
Type (Dublin Core)
Photograph
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Art & Design
English
Consumer Culture (shopping, dinning...)
English
Food & Drink
English
Health & Wellness
English
Cities & Suburbs
English
Government Federal
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
employment
JobKeeper
pay
restriction
paint
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
fast food
bored
drawing
recreating
famous paintings
whiteboard markers
urban
city
Collection (Dublin Core)
English
Visual Arts
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
2020/11/01
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
2020/11/04
02/15/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
2020/07/03
This item was submitted on November 1, 2020 by Sasha Longstaff using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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