Bedroom Chair Colour:Raw operating as Purnell Shoe Company

operating as Purnell Shoe Company by the 1970s before closing as cheap imports contracted Melbourne's footwear industry

light filtering through the grime to what lies below

Boiler House Basement at Rozelle

their woven rush surfaces worn from years of use

machinery left where it stood

Bedroom Chair Colour:Raw operating as Purnell Shoe CompanyA bedroom chair sits in one of Seika Dormitory's lower floor rooms, its worn fabric collecting dust under soft window light. The chair is one of many personal items left behind when the July 2007 fire displaced around 40 residents from the reinforced concrete building in Kohinata, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo. Built in 1927 to house Taiwanese students studying in the Japanese capital, the dormitory stood for 80 years before the fire ended its occupation. Part of