Watching Sydney's annual bacchanalian Mardi Gras street parade in 2002, the author realizes "home is no longer the place I remember, a weatherboard box containing a conventional .
Most people drive the same kind of car, have the same kind of yard behind the same kind of weatherboard house.
In a large painting like Island Farmhouse, 1969, the white weatherboard asserts itself in a blast of light like a Doric temple; the lines of shadow are a burning visionary yellow .