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01/02/2004: "Are buildings like people? Sometimes."
There is a wonderful collection of photos at this site:
http://oboylephoto.com/state_hospital/index.htm
The site is called 'Modern Ruins'. This link has photos of a 'State Hospital for the Insane'.
The pictures are intriguing to the mind and pleasing to the eye. They have aspects of beauty about them. I am fond of decay, finding in the decomposition of things an intrigue, sense of place and of history that cannot be found in the modern, the shiny, the untouched.
When one finds oneself in unfamiliar buildings, one can imagine people who had been before: their stories, arguments, jealousies and loves. This is easy to do in old buildings. Easier still in buildings lost to care and purpose.
