Brooding Skies Size:S Duality at Waterfall

Duality at Waterfall

sat abandoned by the time Lost Collective photographed it in 2015

Part of the Box Hill Brickworks series

with European settlement reaching this far south from 1827

The machine is approximately 135 years old

Brooding Skies Size:S Duality at WaterfallWeathered timber walls and broken windowpanes mark a farmhouse now open to the sky, its slab construction a record of the hands that built and then left it. Structures like this one were the physical residue of the selector's gamble: 320 acres of Crown land for 1 per acre, three years' residence required, and the Monaro doing its best to collect on the debt. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.