House colouds Blayney Rainbow at Australia and

Blayney Rainbow at Australia and Japan

The bar sat inside a purpose-built community venue at the corner of Victoria Road and Darling Street

their weathered timber and flaking paint a record of slow retreat from industry

their corrugated iron roofs streaked with rust and their frames bowing under decades of weather

and machinery for the southern Monaro tablelands

House colouds Blayney Rainbow at Australia andA two storey timber house in Yubari, its upper storey wrapped in rusted corrugated steel and its lower walls shedding blue paint in long strips. Bare branches press against the facade; debris and broken timber collect at the front. The post war mining town vernacular that once housed tens of thousands across Hokkaido's Sorachi coalfields, now standing largely empty. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.