Gippsland Funeral Home and Chapel
As one of Craig's earliest works, the building showcases Craig's understanding of life and death and was created specifically to help mourners confront and deal with the ceremony and release of the funeral tradition. Rossetti's sense of these light and surface effects is acute.
"The western light at that time, is ethereal, with longer shadows, more mystical," Rossetti explained, "and as you sit through the service the light is changing through the afternoon, patting you on the back basically, with the dappled light coming through the trees behind you.
After the service you turn around and
the view explodes out again so after the deprivation of the senses, this
is a kind of reassurance of life going on afterwards."
Story by Marcus O'Donnell - Photographs by Tim Griffith see more >
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