"The true subject of Eugene Von Guerard's From the Verandah is not landscape, whether domestic or pastoral, but a visual coincidence, a time and place where a spatial historical event - the active process of visualising a place - coincided with a place that already had a view of its own".[9]

The threshold is a place of transition which enables me to feel located in the present without denying the past.

"The Berkeleian solipsism of imagining a country springing into existence as one sets foot in it,- Any orientation to the new environment depends initially on finding resemblances between it and the home left behind".[10]