Rachel Marsden - an Australian photographic artist

'Woodstock' is a series of images taken in the delapidated house my sister lived in when she was eighteen, a transitional period where she was just beginning to establish her own identity.

Woodstock was the name affectionately given to the house because of the street it resides on, because of the spirit of the people that lived there and also references the cheap Woodstock bourbon that the teenagers would sometimes drink at one of their many parties.

Every room of the Woodstock house has its own history waiting to be told. In these images afternoon light embraces the almost empty and aging spaces, lingering a while on peeling wallpapers or crooked window ledges. This house has a personality of it's own and the images aim to capture that identity.

The images were captured on Polaroid film, a medium known for it's unstable qualities and tendency to fade with time. This impermanence echoes the similarly fading histories within the Woodstock home.