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Clock Tower Detail

Johnny Mac

I might be mistaken, but do I sense a kind of penis thing in this clock tower, or is it my perverted sense of perception.

Location: Worcester State Hospital  Gallery: Silent Creatures

What Is Left

Johnny Mac

I once applied for a job at this hospital and at the time I felt the fortress like appearance and an overwhelming sense of sadness emanating from this acharic ediface.

Location: Worcester State Hospital  Gallery: Silent Creatures

Other Buildings

Johnny Mac

Sorta like going to wake where the subject has been dead for at least a decade.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Overcast

Huntress

Johnny Mac

What do ya think? Now we have a story line. My guess it could turned into a t.v. series with real life stories. Whoopee, a new reality series. I don't think so.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Ceiling Clock

Johnny Mac

Weasel, not sure how to deal with a whole mess of forum. I loved that whole bedeviled place and it holds so many memories in my life. I was an itegral part of it all and to this day it predominates many of my dreams. It's haunting but not unpleasant. Faces and places go from my life of dream time to my life in real time. Sometimes it's difficult to discern what important and what fluff. It's a wonderful website and gives me an outlet for expression. Guidness, probably.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Mental Floss

Empty Patient Room

Johnny Mac

I'm not going swear that this happened, but I believe that I got laid in this room for the sheer hell of it. This even scares me.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Mental Floss

Bathtub

Johnny Mac

I think I had a bowl of that as an appetizer last night when I went to a local restaraunt. Mmmm, good.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Mental Floss

Alarm

Johnny Mac

Looks totally digital to me.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Mental Floss

Hall

Johnny Mac

Hey doc., really?

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: A Farewell Visit?

Acceptance

Johnny Mac

Motts it was fanciful fun to be able to comment on the thoughts that went through my mind, it gave me an opportunity to comment on the action of the subject and on the feelings that it conjured up. It wasn't necessarily the art of the photo but more so what you wanted to elicit. Just a thot.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Courtyard

Johnny Mac

Do I see the express train tunnel to realm of eternal damnation. Goosebumps, eh?

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: A Farewell Visit?

Archway

Johnny Mac

There is a softness to these arches and they existed as anti rooms for t.v. or perhaps an aquarium. Mainly though, they were used for eviseration and the torture of mad people. Give me break, stains on the floor>

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Mental Floss

Colored Light

Johnny Mac

I don't know, there is sort of a comforting aspect this pic. It's not threatening but sort of benign and acceptable.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Mental Floss

Fluoroscope

Johnny Mac

I remember that my mom and dad had a console radio that looked exactly like that little sucker.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Mental Floss

Peeling

Johnny Mac

Lynne, one of my favorite words, buttress.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Mental Floss

Strike

Johnny Mac

Cupid cowerering in the corner waiting for the executioner to take her to the gates of hades.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Frustration

Johnny Mac

Cupid, they didn't even give you a mattress on the floor much less pluck off your wings. You were lucky because could fly out of this misery. In that room, most likely, the wings were excised and you would have been left to the demons.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Rusted Jewel

Johnny Mac

Being that close cupid, could you smell the breath of death?

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Seclusion

Johnny Mac

It's it, there is no way out and I am at the bottom of my soul and now I'm even losing that. These photos deserve comment perhaps not only for the talent for which they deserve, but for the thought that they elicit from the viewer. I view cupid from a different perspective that I view the other photos. It put the human element in an otherwise dead and a no longer vital enviorment. The human aspect threw me for a bit of a loop.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Checking In

Johnny Mac

Welcome my dear to the horror show, we've been waiting for you.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Fleeting Glimpse

Johnny Mac

My god cupid, you saw the enemy and it was you.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Silence

Johnny Mac

Those were the scratches of the desparate and the frightened. It also was the scratches of the desparate of the interlopers and vandals who desecrated these hallowed ruins. Cupid, you are the messenger and only can relate what you are. Think, my gossamer witch.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Listen

Johnny Mac

Cupid, you must think that one day or one millinium in the future that this pic will come back to haunt you. It is already haunting me and you decided to become a part of the past and the darkness that you have chosen to become a part of. You have chosen to become one of us.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Acceptance

Johnny Mac

It's cupid mourning and that green mattress that I'm so familiar with. The mattress has so much history, so much residual memory. Cupid is absorbing it all in, for better or worse, has asked for things that later on in life she my regret. Very, very, chancy stuff.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise

Concussion

Johnny Mac

So disturbing, like the cadaver of a young women in the morgue. Life, but no life, history but no history. The photo relays the depth of it all. Much more than I expected. The series said a lot more than realized. Again, good show, Motts.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Cupid's Demise