Holding Together, Keeping Apart
David Pope
14 April 2020
Pope’s cartoon was commissioned for the front page of The Canberra Times: ‘It’s basically the great dichotomy isn’t it, the great challenge we’ve got dealing with this virus. I was just trying to find an image that would encapsulate that — that we were all confined to our individual spheres, and that’s a real problem because so much of our life doesn’t work like that.’
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