Fukinoto piano with an overhead gantry crane

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

Blue Afternoon at Australia and Japan

It is the kind of tool that would have seen daily use in the Sundell Holden workshop and service centre on Smith Street

The campus closed in 2009 and was demolished in 2018

Fukinoto piano with an overhead gantry craneFukinoto, 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.