Steve Rosendale 'The Diving Pool' fantastical 'From Alice Springs to the

'From Alice Springs to the Kimberleys

Chapter 8 V Majzner 2001

With their visible homage to the Old Masters

At 19 years old

Steve Rosendale 'The Diving Pool' fantastical 'From Alice Springs to theSteve Rosendales The Diving Pool is an image of nostalgia. It is set in an imagined motel, perhaps from a 1960s television show, Hotel California or faded postcard, skirted by idealized figures. Rosendale is less interested in witness reports than the opiate power of collective memory itself. The Diving Pool occurs in a universe that never existed and yet it is somehow familiar, a summer from some past life that we unthinkingly yearn for. What is