Hollow Room balustrade Conveyor at Yarraville

Conveyor at Yarraville

Glimmer at New South Wales

Sunlight falls across the entrance threshold of Seika Dormitory

paint peeling in long curls from boards split and silvered by exposure

Peeling paint and cracked tiles mark the room's slow retreat

Hollow Room balustrade Conveyor at YarravilleA disused room in the novitiate building at Lewisham Hospital, Convent and Grounds, its plaster peeling back from the walls in long strips beneath a high window. Light falls through the opening and crosses bare floor, illuminating the quiet collapse of a space once central to a working religious institution. The Little Company of Mary operated the Lewisham Hospital complex for nearly a century before vacating the site in 1986. Part of the Lewisham