Filling the time whilst working in fast food

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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).

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)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

2020/11/01

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

2020/11/04

02/15/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

2020/07/03

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Covid 19

Australian Collection

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://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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