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Violet Light

Kassie

Wow, this hardly looks real. It's beautiful. I'm loving the colours, especially.

Location: Severalls Hospital  Gallery: The Beginning of the End

There's Something Down There...

Kassie

Someone, if you don't find these places beautiful, then why do you take the time to look at them? And just to let you know, if there are "spirirts and terrifying. ghosts [sic]" I doubt they are all that evil. Of course, I hold a suspension of disbelief. ;) The only thing evil here to hurt you are rotting floors and ceilings, possibly asbestos.

Location: Plymouth County Hospital  Gallery: Feverish

Watchful Eyes

Kassie

Don't go out into the light!

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Snakepit

Kassie

Hellingly (perhaps hellishly lol) put! Glad we don't have a pun tax here. :p

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Geister

Kassie

See? Now, to me, this looks like a crazy-cool corner in a kitchen. With funkadellic carpet to boot.

Breath taking colours, Motts!

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Blue Doors

Kassie

I find more and more, the archetecture of this building makes it feel...less institutional and sterile, you know? Instead of looking and feeling like a hospital, it looks and feels like a church, or places that are comfortable. Especially this shot. It makes me think of a hallway in a household, you know?

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Chamber of Mold

Kassie

Stephen King. That's what this shot reminds me of. Even the title. Very King-esque.

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Strung Out

Kassie

This seems kind of playful, and again, brings back memories of a school where I competed in a music festival. For some reason, this room makes me think of the warm up room I had. Bot wow...it's amazing what some large, open spaces and good lighting will do, eh?

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Visage

Kassie

What a neat/unusual angle, and well worth it, too! There's something about this photo that strikes me...then again, this whole gallery has done the same.

It reminds me of the Titanic or something, you know?

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

The Hall

Kassie

Wow! I love the colours in this, and the structure is really neat. I'm loving the ceiling and the stage (yes? no?)

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

The Wait to be Seated

Kassie

Wow...the lighting in this one...for some reason, it strikes memories of being in the elementary school I was in, and waiting on a warm spring day for school to be dismissed. It's...it just feels like that, a lot.

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Hair Therapy

Kassie

Hmmn, there's something so...different about this place, than the other shots you've taken. It seems so surreal, like a movie set or something, you know?

This is a lovely shot. I especially love the crisp line between the plastered rotting wall and the tiles. And sinks you say? As in...not smashed by vandals? How interesting. Not what I'm used to seeing!

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Damp

Kassie

This is absolutely beautiful. The ceiling...was that an exclusive feature of THIS particular asylum, did you find, Motts, or did many of the ceilings have that curve or arch to them? It definatly seems different than the American ones, so far! Beautiful.

Location: Hellingly Hospital  Gallery: Sporadic Storms

Sunlight

Kassie

I love the lighting on this...and I can just imagine the texture, all that wonderful peeling paint under my fingertips...ahh... So beautiful. I can't help but be entranced by how tall the ceilings are...gorgeous.

Location: Belchertown State School  Gallery: The Theater

Board

Kassie

This room definatly doesn't have the charm of say, the hallway shots you took, which were beautiful, but I must say, I'm liking the tiling on the floor.

Location: Green Hill State Hospital  Gallery: Swarmed

The Last Hall

kassie

Has anyone found the underground tunnels????

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

Cooler

Kassie

Wow Motts, I really love the shadows in this picture. Go lighting! ^_^
I have to admit, along with the gallery where you have the "beam me up" photo, this is one of your definatly fun galleries, even though you weren't feeling well.
Hope you're feeling better now though, hun.

Location: Plymouth County Hospital  Gallery: Feverish

Feet

Kassie

What a fun shot! I really love it!

Location: Plymouth County Hospital  Gallery: Feverish

Still Life

Kassie

Aww, that lamp looks as if it's ready to run away, crying, "I didn't do it!"

Location: Plymouth County Hospital  Gallery: Feverish

Pink

Kassie

How appropriate...a tribute to the worst hair cut in the world...the Bowl Cut.
But you know...that thing beside the words "Bowl Cut" DOES actually really resemble a soap dispenser.
Crazy.

Location: Plymouth County Hospital  Gallery: Feverish

Circus Train

Kassie

I feel so out of place saying this...but I had one of those, and I was a child of the late 80's/ early 90's.
It gives me warm fuzzies to see this picture, but also, it makes me feel kinda' melancholy...it's almost as if it's saying that we all abandon our childhood when we grow up, and the memories are pushed aside to the darkest corner of our adulthood (aka the office), perhaps never to be discovered again.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Lockdown

Water Damaged Room

Kassie

Wow, this room got hit hard by water damage, now didn't it?
I have to say that Kings park is the place where I have seen the most extreme cases of water damage, peeling paint, etc.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 39, 138, 139

Rotting Bathroom

Kassie

My junior high-school had soap dispensers similair to that one, and I never knew how to work them on account of the bottley part being none-squishable.
I probably sound really stupid because I don't know how to work these little gems.
Haha, either way, if memory serves me correctly, the liquid soap usually put into these dispensers was pink, was it not?

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 39, 138, 139

Choked

Kassie

I'm not sure why, Mr. Motts, but this photo makes me think of Aztec/Myan ruins.

Beautiful photo.

Location: Pratt Greenhouse  Gallery: Greenhouse

Curvature

Kassie

"We sleep by the ever-bright hole
At the door.
Eat in the corners,
Talk to the floors.
Teaching the spider's tongue
to say "Please".
Politely they bend at the knees.
Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!"
-- A Passion Play, Jethro Tull

A Note: Ironically, "Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs" is one of the (apparent) British equivalents of "Well, I'll be damned".
Fitting, isn't it?

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Uncovering the Past