Fukinoto piano Blue Afternoon at Australia and

Blue Afternoon at Australia and Japan

Built in 1939 by contractor D

Rusting steel beams and concrete uprights form the gantry at Box Hill Brickworks

with an overhead gantry crane running through the full length of the structure during operations

An open filing cabinet stands in the vacant Smith Street workshop

Fukinoto piano Blue Afternoon at Australia andFukinoto, the butterbur sprout, pushes through bitumen and concrete across Yubari every spring, indifferent to what is built above it. In Hokkaido culture it marks the end of winter, the first green thing after snowmelt. Here it surfaces beside a quiet street, snow still covering the ground. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.