MP55 Harbour Control Tower from Observatory Hill
2016 oil on paper 9.5 x 9.5cm
Another one of my old studios has bitten the dust.
I feel like I can jinx a place just by painting it.
I have been observing the start of the demolition of the Port Operations Harbour Tower in Millers Point.
Love it or loathe it, the Tower was one of the last vestiges of Barangaroo's former life as a working port.
The heart and soul of the former 'Hungry Mile' has been ripped out and replaced with machines.
Literally.
MP56 Harbour Control Tower from Argyle st
2016 oil on paper 9.5 x 9.5cm
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Once the 'mushroom cap' at the top of the Tower was fully removed, the concrete stem below it was eaten away by robotic excavators from the top down.
Just another portent of the world envisioned by Isaac Asimov in his book “I, Robot. Technology asserts its robotic grip whether you like it or not.
Progress is so impersonal.
Eaten by robots- what a way to go!
So very Dr Who. "Exterminate, exterminate!"
MP54 Harbour Control Tower
from the Hotel Palisade 2016-7
oil on canvas 122 x 153cm
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Meanwhile paint peels off surrounding terraces awaiting their inevitable gentrification. The Hotel Palisade opposite has completed its journey from seedy early opening waterfront dive to expensive hipster hub, while retaining some of the trappings of its colourful past.
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