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Psychadelic Sink

Fraser

Like the psychadelic mind of a mentally ill person, as if it is getting washed away into a psychological black hole

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Building 7 (Medical Building)

Lost Sole

Fraser

Like the double meaning

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Building 7 (Medical Building)

Ripped Mattress

Fraser

The frustrated slashes of a misunderstood soul. (even if not quite sane)

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Building 93 (Infirmary)

Path to Rehab

Fraser

The path to rehab, the floor is crumbling away, as if (from a 1st person perspective) your hopes and dreams are falling apart before your eyes.

Location: Gravesend Asylum  Gallery: Thorazine Dream

Musical Chairs

Fraser

This again reminds me of the mind of a mentally ill person, scattered thoughts, not ordered or indeed sane!

Location: Gravesend Asylum  Gallery: Thorazine Dream

Stains

Fraser

If you look closely at the stains on the wall, you can see a face, from the side, as if wearing a gasmask or perhaps covering one's mouth with a cloth? i don'tt know how rellevant that is but that's what came to mind. were old soldiers (supposedly crazy) condemned to life here?

Location: Gravesend Asylum  Gallery: Thorazine Dream

Medical Equipment

Fraser

It looks like an iron lung to me

Location: Gravesend Asylum  Gallery: Thorazine Dream

Smolder

Fraser

In reference to the first picture, it COULD be yet another incidental reference to the mind of a mentally ill person. The base has colapsed through and everything has fellen through with it, like a psychological abyss.

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Wandered Far from the Office

Fraser

Perhaps an incidental referance to the mindset of some mentally ill patients. Something so out of place, like their personalities and opinions in the world they are/were in.

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Chamber of Mold

Fraser

It looks like the mould is creeping steadily accross the room, decaying it piece by piece! possibly like the slow-acting yet chronic effects of mental illness. excellent shot.

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Vine

Fraser

perhaps the vine, by clinging to the wall, is making a literal (yet completely incidental) reference to the strong grip of the law on it's deviants.

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Caged Off Area

Fraser

I don't think the prisoners would have had an opportunity to climb the bars in the foreground of this shot. it was probably just a "gate" between two sections of the prison, perhaps the bars there would just be to slow down prisoners in the even of a break out or a riot? just a thought...

Location: York Street Jail  Gallery: The Big House

Examination Light

fraser

What kinda surgery did these guys do? i heard they did lobotomies! don't like the sound of thatmuch! (this is an incredible site!! like the photography!)

Location: Cliffside Hospital  Gallery: Secret Things