Ornate main entrance to Patinack farm

The need to relate to clients has an impact on landscaping. This is recognized by some of the thoroughbred breeders  

We could do this without the black fences for a lot less money, but that s the emotive image people are looking for. (TB2) 

Paddocks are irrigated because it looks good (Arrrowfield manager, Rob Wallace, quoted in Munro, 2006 17) 

The inherent palettes of the Australian bush are used in the tonal range of chalky sandstone, with grey washed roofs and hardwood sUding doors combined with dulled edged metal framing. 

We seek the purity of our absence, but everywhere we find our own fingeiprints. It is ultimately our own bodies and our labor that blur the boundtiries between the artificial and the natural. 

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