Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Italian migrant Galliano Callegari took decades to write a love story to his adopted home in stone.
“If don’t preserve my fence, my house will be crippled,” Callegari said. “It has taken me my life to build this place.” Written in sweat, hand-picked rocks and recycled materials, Callegari’s mosaics are an ode to ambition and Australia. Carlo said his mother Daniella was the unsung hero who raised four children while Callegari worked three jobs to raise the money for the build.As children, Carlo and his older sister Teresanna would earn 10 cents a brick removing mortar. “Occasionally we would come across convict-made bricks with the heart/diamond/square symbols. Dad told us that these were precious and so he would carefully clean those himself,” he said.
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