Soft Light switch house the corrugated iron walls rusting

the corrugated iron walls rusting back into the landscape

layers of peeling paint recording decades of disuse

from 1982 until closure in December 2006

A first aid kit hangs undisturbed on a classroom wall at Macquarie Boys Technology High School

Weathered timber walls and broken windowpanes mark a farmhouse now open to the sky

Soft Light switch house the corrugated iron walls rustingA ward inside Callan Park's Kirkbride Complex, photographed in 2018. Gentle light moves across walls where plaster has pulled away and paint has lost its grip, the room stripped back to bare surfaces. The Kirkbride Complex was built from 1880 as Australia's first purpose built hospital for moral therapy, a design rooted in the idea that light, air, and landscape were themselves treatment. Female Ward 9 10 was part of that original intention. Part of