House colouds their weathered timber and flaking

their weathered timber and flaking paint a record of slow retreat from industry

Blayney Rainbow at Australia and Japan

a site that produced cement from 1902 until November 1991

its rusted bars thick and unyielding against the deteriorating structure around it

and machinery for the southern Monaro tablelands

House colouds their weathered timber and flakingA two storey timber house in Yubari, its upper storey wrapped in rusted corrugated steel and its lower walls shedding blue paint in long strips. Bare branches press against the facade; debris and broken timber collect at the front. The post war mining town vernacular that once housed tens of thousands across Hokkaido's Sorachi coalfields, now standing largely empty. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.