Control Desk Type:Unframed Limited and open editions

Limited and open editions

with engine RPM to the left and propeller pitch to the right

and the population has been falling ever since

copper strands exposed where the wiring was pulled down

purpose-built in 1947 for Automatic Totalisators Limited

Control Desk Type:Unframed Limited and open editionsA 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.