English Block rock graffiti covers the concrete walls

graffiti covers the concrete walls and timber boarding behind it

light falling through broken windows onto dust-covered surfaces

its walls shedding paint and dust settling across the tables and chairs left behind

Layers of peeling paint record the years between the factory floor's last shift and the day Brett Patman walked in

English Block rock graffiti covers the concrete wallsA derelict classroom inside the English Block at Macquarie Boys Technology High School, Rydalmere. Desks and chairs sit under years of accumulated dust, textbooks and papers left where students last put them when the school closed in 2009. Part of the Macquarie Boys Technology High series.