Flare delegate Inside Western Village

Inside Western Village

built by hand from split eucalypt and left standing when the land could no longer carry a family

display panel long dead

when Yubari City declared fiscal rehabilitation after accumulating deficits of approximately ¥35

sunlight cutting through broken windows to pick out the dust and decay

Flare delegate Inside Western VillageSunlight cuts across the interior of Female Ward 9 and 10, throwing a hard lens flare through the decay. Peeling paint and forgotten medical equipment sit inside one of the Kirkbride Complex's ten ward blocks, the Victorian sandstone pavilions built between 1880 and 1884 as Australia's first purpose built hospital for moral therapy treatment. Part of the Callan Park series.