Now that's creepy!

Sketch it sounds like you are a professional at removing bras. lol

I could just die! Mt Motts oh my God that sounds so dirty and so wrong! I wish there was an edit on these things! LOL Motts I am so sorry about this! But it is funny in a humilating kind of way. :D

Paint ball lunches! Oh no!
But Lynne that wasn't drawn by a patient with paint! It was drawn with the abused patients own blood that the evil orderlies spilled while beating them just for fun! With their last bit of strength the innocent patient victim (put unfairly into the hospital due to a stuttering problem) drew that painting an then died alone in that litle room. Their body was hidden under the floor boards where it still rots today!
Don't think I don't know!


LOL this is a joke by the way. :)

LOL good idea Jo. You know there was really a story in the Weekly World News (It's all true I tell you! lol) about some company that sued to hire snipers to shoot employees with paint balls if the employees attempted to leave their desks. Well! There's the truth for you! First they tortured the insane with paint balls, now onto the working! :D

LOL Lynne and Jo wanted to fix their dolls. When me and my friends were wee ones we used to destroy them. Once we had this huge Barbie doll concentration camp going in my friends basement. We would rip up their limps and tie them to the ceiling with shoe laces, put their heads on a mantle like head hunters and once we even got a robotics set and made "mutant zombie limbless robots" out of mutaliated Barbies (relax we got the idea off of Tales From The Crypt episodes. We weren't quite nuts enough to think of it ourselves). It was alot of fun. Used to scare the hell out of all the boys though. LOL we were very dark children with blond hair and blue eyes. We were only six when we did all this. It went on for a few months and then one of my friends mom found a closet full of Barbie victims and we had to clean the whole place up. It was dissappointing but okay because about a year later I got a movie camera and we used to film Barbie suicides. Like Barbies jumping out windows and drowing themselves in puddles. There's nothing quite like tormenting a Barbie doll. We must have wacked 50 or more of them. We also got ideas from movies like "Good Fellas." LOL we watched alot of movies very young. :D
Just felt like typing, thought I should share.

That's really beautiful in a twisted odd way. It's like something out of an evil Alice and Wonderland yet it's peaceful as well....strange. Great shot!

Thanks Tony!
Motts really should try to get these into a gallery. Maybe not a big one at first, just a wee one in Long Island City or Chelsea, somewhere around there. He's based in New York right? Seriously alot of people would like this work. I bet he could get a wee add in the New York times too. It would be a great exhibit.

LOL good catch guys! I just realized what I did. Hey, I was tired! I'd been up writing all night before I checked this out. Mt. Motts, LOL that is funny! :D
Sorry MR Motts!

I can just imagine a ghost siting there....

Now THIS belongs in a museum!

Well that would be useful if someone ran off half naked! LOL could you imagine someone finding an escaped male patient out on the town in one of these? ROTF! :D
God I'm so insensitive.

Have you ever contacted a museum about these photos? I'm sure someone would have you display them, lots of people would be into this if you could get a gallery to put them on display and pay for a small add to be printed in both the New York Times and Newsday. Really! These are better than more than half the junk in the galleries! I think you should try it Motts.

If only those walls could talk.....

That is a great photo, it looks like something out of those "A seris of unfortunate events" children's books. Well done Mt Motts! :)

That is one of the best shots on this site! I wish I could get a print of it. Great job Mr. Mottts.

"The Great Chair Escape!" coming soon to a theater near you. :D

Oh my God, Marcia I'm sorry I read your e-mail wrong! It's been a long day. I didn't notice the "I doubt" part somehow. I am so sorry!
I know what you are saying, the picture was harmless to the clients because they couldn't understand it. Sorry but I thought you had said it could have been harmful. LOL I need to rest my eyes! I've been writing all day. Sorry about that again. Just ignore that alst comment, my bad. :)

Well I hope too many clients didn't see it then. That's what I was saying from the begining, if this was going to scare the clients maybe it was a poor idea to hang it up. You know what I mean? It's not your fault at all--whoever ran the class should have had the sense.
Thanks a lot for your explaination though. This must have been a very sad place to work in with all the damged people but at least you did your best to help them. It's a sad situation.

Thanks Marcia!
In that case then there is nothing wrong with this drawing. It wasn't in an area around the patients and it was viewed merely as a frustrated joke by the staff so there's nothing bad about it at all then.
I wouldn't have been delighted to hear that it was for the children and residents to see but since it was only for the staff forced into a hated class then I can actually see some pretty good humor in the drawing. :D
I feel bad for anyone who is forced to attend these stupid classes, what the hell is the point anyway?
Thanks again for your reply.

Hi Marcia,
What was the TA class? I'm just wondering. Was it all for the staff or were patients there too? I read all of the above comments and I know that the picture was drawn by the TA class (and that most people in the class thought it was stupid) but I'm not sure what the TA class was. Also, was this picture hung up in a place near the patients? It just seems weird to me that if the TA class consisted of all adults that they would have to draw such a childish picture.
I'm just asking out of curiosity, I'm not passing attacking you, I'm just confused about what the purpose of this class was.
Lynne, I read one of your comments from January. I think it was the 13th of January 2006 and I have to say that your job sounds really difficult but really interesting. It must be hard to have to look over all those injuries and see where they came from. I believe you when you say most of them are self inflicted since I've read that a good number of the mentally ill do try to hurt themselves. It must be a really sad thing to see but I applaud you for doing your upmost to help those who are ill.
Once I heard a story but it maybe a rumor. Have you ever heard that way back in the olden days of threapy, the 1800s let's say, one of the ways to "cure" mental illness was to scare it out of ill? I've heard that back in those days the doctors would try to frighten people into saneness and actually do more harm than good. Is there any truth to this at all? If so how did they frighten them (like did they jump out at them and shout BOO or threaten them somehow)?
Sorry to ask so many questions but I'm really interested by all this.

I agree with Brina, that drawing does seem kind of strange since it's in a place which housed disturbed children. Why put something like that around unstable children? Pennhurst seemed to house a lot of retarded children and many of them are easily frightened. Why draw something like this for them? It's like rubbing salt into an open wound.
Now I don't want to fight here. I'm sure many good people did work at Pennhurst--however according to actual court transcripts many bad people did to. In fact, most of the good employee's at Pennhurst ended up coming out and filing complaints against the place.
I've been reading Lynne's comments and she really seems to know a lot about mental hospitals and the care of disturbed patients but I really have to wonder if she has seen that old movie footage from back in the 1960s.
How could anyone look at that and defend this place?

What great colors! That place looks perfect for sitting around in eatting chocolates and drinking sodas. I really like the colors here, this place made an effort to look cheerful which is more than can be said for places like Pennhurst.
Great photo shop job Lynne, lol Mr. Motts goes on a Spring cleaning craze!