Wireless yellow Spray cans and debris cover

Spray cans and debris cover the grime-darkened carpet

its felt ripped and dulled with dust

Built during the mid-twentieth century expansion of the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company works

rust bleeding across metal fittings left in place when the plant closed in the late 1990s

its cracked casing and frayed wires coated in dust

Wireless yellow Spray cans and debris coverAn obsolete wireless receiver sits abandoned on a surface inside Leichhardt House, its cracked casing and frayed wires coated in dust. The set dates occupation of this c. 1890 slab hut to at least the mid twentieth century, long after the building's original domestic life gave way to agricultural use. Part of the Leichhardt House series.