Reclaimed Home Size:L Yubari: rows of faded green

Yubari: rows of faded green tiles lining the walls of empty cubicles

its metal surfaces marked by decades of decay

long after Purnell Shoe Company had wound down

Removed from any domestic setting

throwing back a reflection of the decaying walls and silent machinery above

Reclaimed Home Size:L Yubari: rows of faded greenSunlight breaks through a broken window into a room where vines have taken over the walls and floor. The dwelling is one of the vernacular slab and timber homesteads photographed across rural New South Wales, structures that mark where selector families once put down roots and where the land has since moved on without them. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.