Opulence depicts the Drive-in theatre of the Western Australian wheat belt town of Korda. The big screen glitters with the glamourous party lights of the Gatsby Ball in contrast to its setting of the outback’s wide-open spaces, featureless plains and low shrubs. Watching from their shiny vehicles the locals may or may not feel envy at what is projected into their world.
I grew up in the sixties without computers, mobile phones or I-pads. Seeing a screen meant a visit to my grandparent’s black and white telly on Saturday nights to watch Danny Kaye and Maverick.
The painting Drive in Study of Gone with the Wind’s Rhett Butler and Scarlet Ohara is my early experience of the Drive-ins.
