Fireplace and Chimney Colour:White the timber-framed saloon now wears

the timber-framed saloon now wears its decay openly: peeling paint and softening wood where the crowds once were

oxidised to a flat grey

Layers of peeling paint record the years between the factory floor's last shift and the day Brett Patman walked in

sits within a yard that stretches roughly 900 metres across the Monaro tablelands

its metal casing thick with rust

Fireplace and Chimney Colour:White the timber-framed saloon now wearsA rendered fireplace and brick chimney stand at the centre of a derelict room inside the Mill Pond Farm homestead at Jembaicumbene, New South Wales. Whitewashed fibre cement walls, a scattered timber plank floor, and partly exposed roof framing surround it. The farmhouse dates to the 1830s, when William Henry Roberts and Andrew Badgery established the original pastoral estate on Walbanga country. Part of the Mill Pond Farm series.