Soft Light switch house layers of peeling paint recording

layers of peeling paint recording decades of disuse

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

The NSW State Heritage Inventory records Numbla Vale as a listed locality

the Victorian sandstone pavilion block designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet and completed in 1885

left where they fell when production ceased

Soft Light switch house layers of peeling paint recordingA 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