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Are there no prisons? No Social Security, no legal service? I support the aforementioned establishments and the poor must go there." - Ebeneezer Scrooge - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol -
Why is Norma Mc Carthy homeless?
The 70 year old Australian artist says she is a reflection of the decay within Australian society. That we're conservative, superficial, and complacent. That the Aussie spirit is not what it was.
Norma Mc Carthy from Sydney's Marrickville remembers well the days of the institution that is Germaine Greer. Possibilities appeared on Australian women's horizons. We could throw off some of the chains and shackles of colonial history.
Maiia: Norma shows us things we don't want to see! Yet - without dealing with the shadow we're not whole. Covering our eyes, denying Australia's mental health problems sendings them underground and onto the streets.
Norma advocates taking up an artform as a healing tool. Letting go of grief and trauma through self-expression. During her travels she always takes the oppurtunity to share her passion with whichever companions she finds. Painting, drawing, paper-flower making, mixed media. graffiti
Buffeted by the winds. Like Australia's great poet and author Henry Lawson.When I first bought Henry Lawson's collected works I walked through The Valley reading Faces in the Street and thought -Fuck nothing has changed!
First Things First - Editorial by Maiia Sept 09
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