Sanatarium
32 creative works found
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it’s easy to only focus on the sadness inherent in an old derelict building like teton. / when you know the misery in the history of a asylum, and you see / only the ruins of what it once was, you sometimes become blinded / by the macabre and morose, by thwarted hopes and unchecked corruption. / if this is all you see – in an abandoned building, in your own life, in the world around you / it’s easy to feel that perhaps it would be best to erase it all, to hide everything away / so deep that it can’t encroach upon your fleeting comforts and contentment. / but, in this place where such terrible, tragic things occurred / there is something else that resides there – sometimes in the brilliant green ivy / that works its way into cracks and crevasses the way lovers’ fingers entwine, / sometimes in the softness of the wind, or the stillness of untouched afternoon sunlight – or / the way gravity welcomes the falling rafters back to the earth and time / absolves its past in the oblivion of unmolested sleep. teton had such beauty – in / the sincerely charitable ambitions that built it, in the graceful forms of its architect’s true design, / in the naive hope of the many who genuinely believed it could bring a cure for the ill, / and in those confined who stole friendships and dignity from the greedy hands of / disgrace and neglect. if you can’t see these things, you’ll never understand why i do what i do. / photographs capture slivers of time. they preserve a point of view, a moment / that would otherwise be forever lost. if you seek truth through them, / maybe you can illuminate the soul of a thing, and maybe show someone else / the proud glory and splendor of the forgotten and forsaken. / the triumphs and frailties of human endeavor may now be heard only in echoes, / but i guarantee you if you are quiet and you listen / you will hear not screams of agony and anguish, but the sweet serenity of final release. / if you approach the past with humility and reverence in your heart you’ll realize that / immortality is not something anyone can ever capture – but if you are very lucky, / through a photograph perhaps you may capture a glimpse, / a fleeting moment of something that, in its own abstract and inexplicable way, / proves beyond a doubt that nothing ever dies. / —-—-—-—-—-—-- photo taken at teton state hospital / more of my work is on www.abandonedamerica.org / please check out my new book, filled with photos and text – the link is on my site’s main page!
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photo taken at rosevale institution if you get a chance, my new book is available, please take a look at: / www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/494773 you can read about it there, but it has a lot of high quality prints of my work. and as always, please visit my site abandonedamerica.org if you’d like to see more of my work. thanks and i hope you have a great holiday.
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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. ~Herodotus more of my work is viewable on www.abandonedamerica.org
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photo taken in the communicable disease hospital at isle de las gaviotas / perhaps one of the most difficult locations to access that there is :) / more of my work is on my website, www.abandonedamerica.org
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we were all so addicted to spectacle: / the drama of the media and celebrity lives, our / huge cineplexes and large-screen tvs, the / cacophony of arena concerts and the overblown importance / we gave our own silly little struggles. / we were like the romans with their bread and circuses / we were in the colosseum enjoying our pageants and staged conflicts / while all the signs around us were pointing one way: / to our own ruin. / there came a point, however, when we could no longer ignore / the fact that we were addicted to poisoning everything that was vital to us. / food stopped growing in the tainted soil, the air itself became toxic, waters rose and cities fell / you would have thought with our taste for the electrifying harmony of discord / that we would have revelled in it, but it was all so different / when the show finally began. / there was no audience to witness it for we were all playing a part. / we were the ones on the stage, and the / epic tragedies being played out / were now our own lives. / -—-—-—-—-—-—-— / photo taken in juanita de brogas magnet middle school / more of my work is on www.abandonedamerica.org
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photo taken at haley boarding house / more of my work is on my website, www.abandonedamerica.org
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down and down and down i go / as i sink through the depths of the sea / there’s one thing left – it’s all i know: / you’re better off without me. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—- photo taken at haley boarding house if you get a chance, my new book is available, please take a look at: / www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/494773 you can read about it there, but it has a lot of high quality prints of my work. and as always, please visit my site abandonedamerica.org if you’d like to see more of my work. thanks and i hope you have a great holiday.
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photo taken at the isle de gavriotas communicable disease hospital. / more of my work is at www.abandonedamerica.org
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My soul is full of whispered song; / My blindness is my sight; / The shadows that I feared so long / Are all alive with light. / ~Alice Cary, Dying Hymn photo taken at isle de las gavriotas / more of my work is on www.abandonedamerica.org
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photo taken at setting sun retirement home. / please come visit my site, www.abandonedamerica.org
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In any man who dies there dies with him / his first snow and kiss and fight…. / Not people die but worlds die in them. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko, “People” photo of isle de las gaviotas’ morgue body tray drawers. / more work is viewable on my site, www.abandonedamerica.org
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“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.” / -Benjamin Harrison / -—-—-—-—-—-——- if you would like to view more of my work please visit www.abandonedamerica.org – i just added a huge new gallery to the site today too! / photo taken at hollely brothers clothing factory
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Numbered patient doors at Norwich State Hospital. Each door leads to a small room large enough for a bed and maybe a chair and nightstand (if staff deemed you safe enough to enjoy such luxuries). —-—-— / For more check out Polarity Photo / -—-—— 100+ Views as of 10.06.08. Thank you everyone!
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As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, / Receives the lurking principle of death, / The younger disease, that must subdue at length, / Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. - Alexander Pope / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- photo taken at portecello communicable disease hospital / more work is available at my website, www.abandonedamerica.org – and i just added a huge new gallery yesterday, so check it out if you get a chance!
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*actually, i don’t get paid the big money. but if i did, i like to think that this would be the reason. photo taken at setting sun retirement home if you haven’t checked out the new mayflower state hospital gallery update on my website www.abandonedamerica.org take a look if you get a minute :)
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Theatre seats decay in the campus theatre at Norwich State Hospital. During the hospital’s usage patients were wheeled through the tunnels which connected all the buildings on campus to the theatre where they say plays, movies and musicals.
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Anything at any price / All of this for you / All the spoils of a wasted life / All of this for you by trent reznor / —-—-—-—-- / more of my photography is available on www.abandonedamerica.org
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“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly….as love.” Erich Fromm / —-—-—-- / photo taken at knightsbridge psychiatric center / more of my work is on my website, www.abandonedamerica.org
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photo taken at mayflower state hospital / more of my work is available on www.abandonedamerica.org
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Two chairs soak up gray light in two patient day rooms on a dreary day at Norwich State Hospital. When the hospital was at its peak capacity, these rooms would have been packed with beds. Beds would have lined each wall and in some rooms there would be up to two rows in the middle of the room as well.
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the cruelest joke / i’ll ever see / is that i thought / you’d stay with me. photo taken at mayflower state hospital. / please view my site www.abandonedamerica.org for more.
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what a strange thing, to die in your sleep / not to have your spirit violently expelled by some calamitous event, / but rather to have it silently stolen away as though by a thief in the night / never to be seen again, nor to even be known as lost. / and if death itself is like sleep, as some say, it is stranger still to find yourself / wandering through the dreams of some monstrous thing / that passed away long ago / as only a random figment, to be heard of briefly and then no more. / we do not fear these places because they may contain ghosts - / we fear them because they make us realize that is in fact what we are. / -—-—-—-—-—- / photo taken at mayflower state hospital / please visit www.abandonedamerica.org if you would like to see more of my work.
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beneath the stains of time / the feelings disappear / you are someone else / i am still right here / —-—-- / by trent reznor / photo taken at neuweiler distillery / more of my work is on my website: www.abandonedamerica.org
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what have i become / my sweetest friend / everyone i know / goes away in the end / —-—-—-—-- / by trent reznor / photo taken at neuweiler distillery / more of my work is on my website: www.abandonedamerica.org
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