Power Point video games oxidised to a flat grey

oxidised to a flat grey

five years after the doors closed on 28 March 2010

paint peeling from the walls and the surfaces stained by years of disuse

Dead Silence at Australia and Japan

one of the smaller structures in the series: a slab-and-iron vernacular form that once kept out a Monaro wind or a Hunter winter with equal indifference

Power Point video games oxidised to a flat greyA cracked plastic power point, coated in dust and discoloured with age, fixed to a crumbling wall inside the abandoned Female Ward 9 & 10 at Callan Park. Once part of a complex designed to house and treat hundreds of patients, this small detail is what remains of a building that operated as a hospital from 1878 until 2008. Part of the Callan Park series.