The residency is perched between the manicured, multi-million dollar properties of Portsea and the Point Nepean National Park, an intriguing strip of bushland housing  World War I and II military fortifications and emplacements and the former Quarantine Station, later a temporary home to Kosovar and other refugees. Each day I walked and made drawings along Millionaire's Walk, in the tunnels and bunkers and outside the now empty utilitarian Quarantine accommodation buildings. Strikingly different architectural clusters and uses but all overlooking the same bay, with the same sunrises and sunsets. There is land, and there is property. My friend took me to where some Peregrine Falcons nest in a cliff top, a reassuring glimpse of something pared back and constant ... observers of what's played out over thousands of years.

On my final day, driving back after drawing outside an expensive Portsea villa (whose features were surely based on the military bunkers), I spotted a hard-rubbish dresser next to a hand-thatched brush fence. I could almost smell the cedar lining from the car and loaded it in ... the curved veneer walnut design will be adjusted in the direction of a small 'pill-box' ish bunker, repurposed for my friend Jack as he continues his Small Van Artist Residency for Non-Artists, here at Quantong.

Paintings are works in progress