The home

Home is the most personal, meaningful, place in the world and yet each building, and the space it occupies, is distinctively shaped by the contemporary technologies and social forces.

Eugene von Guerard's painting of an indigenous family in an open landscape is split by a fence.

Sunshine drenches a 1960's bungalow. Simulated halftone affects the garden.

A residential skyscraper Blurred and pixelated. Pink curtains in the top windows are clear.

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Downey visits von Guerard, Downey House built 1850.

Australian home and garden, Built 1950's.

At home with the algorithm, built 2000,s.

Each home is irrefutably of its time. In three images, homes built over 150 years period show, by absence or presence, the dominant technologies and social forces which have shaped them as you see.

Homes standing within 5 km of my own home.

Debra Phillis

The home