Control Desk power station Daylight reaches in through high

Daylight reaches in through high windows

The building was already a shell by 2015

Part of the Seika Dormitory series

The two SSG generators and the main 5-cylinder Polar diesel are visible at rear

their surfaces layered in graffiti accumulated across decades of abandonment

Control Desk power station Daylight reaches in through highA heavy industrial control desk, its angled panel crowded with rotary dials and switches, sits abandoned inside Hornsby Quarry. Spray paint layers the surface; graffiti covers the concrete walls and timber boarding behind it. The quarry operated from around 1905 to 2002 under a succession of operators, producing crushed dolerite for road base across northern Sydney. Part of the Hornsby Quarry series.