liza Odd long narrow room. The tile is really nice. Florescent lights. Its the law.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Look at that pretty raised panel door. Italian provencial. Do the little windows serve to bring natural light to the rooms beyond.?

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Excellent play of light. Are those shutters or bars, or both? Is the ceiling curved? Stupid light fixture, way too small for the room. Imagine the creepy blinking greenish flourescent casting shadows in the corners.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Holy crap. Those windows don't even start until about the top of the doors. Plus little high windows on the interior wall. Join me at the pink door. Very nice with the light shining through. A bright cave.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Binky must be right in front of me. Watch out.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Color is a little more soothing here. I love the arches in this place. I find arched and circular shapes more calming as well. Dropped framework for lighting? Cat walk for cats?

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Gad zooks! The orange attacts again. Door glass broken, art glass in tact. Good vandal.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Looks like my office when I worked for the Feds. Industrial green was a plague. Soylent green is people.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Oops. I meant the windows could work with the green/blue wall. I got too excited about being an early bird to this gallery.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

liza Yikes! The green/blue in the doorway does not go with the orange at all and the orange does not go with the windows, but the windows could go with the window. I'm confused. Motts, what is the wooden thingie on the floor and is the decorative panel part of it or part of the window? Oh, one more thing. You will find more clear glass mixed with the colored glass in the European structures. America tended to go all color or all clear. Segregation, you know.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza So pretty. Like a resort.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Very odd. Perhaps a steam ironing board with a shelf below for folding linens. Or is there a more diabolic use?

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Medical waste? Must be burned or is highly flamable? Anyone?

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Ah, they did not drop the ceiling, just the soap dispensers. Nature encroaching is beautiful. "Nothing lasts forever but the Earth and sky.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza The multi-paned windows are soooo cool. The window in the foreground appears to be a door?

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza This is really pretty, Motts. I bet it had a wet and fresh aroma. The statue of the Virgin Mary looks a little bit different than the usual. Did the plaques say anything you could read? Dedications?

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Round windows. Can't sit in a corner in them.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza I agree with Binky. More horrifying than any old rotten structure. Gads.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza What the hell? It is one thing to squat, but clean up your damn mess. The little headboards are cute though.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza Sluice. Even the stands and pipes seem creepy. Just think of the old autopsies, without the sluice. eeew.

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza I'm o.k. with fourth. I am usually the last one. As ususal. Great gallery again. I am also amazed at how large they were. This place had it all. Very self-sufficient. This crypt area seems very odd and modern. Is this little building inside the building the cooler of which you speak?

Location: Manicomio Frigerio  Gallery: Il Grande Manicomio

	liza It just cracks me up that the google ads that showed up for this shot include Febreeze, Lamps plus, and Tex-Air Parts, Inc. - a distributor of SMR De-Ice Boots Aircraft Parts, . . . I can see the need for Febreeze and lighting, but the de-icing boots confuses me.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

	liza Were the windows too tall to board all the way to the top. I wondered about that on the outside shots, but wasn't sure that is what I was seeing. This shot showing the light coming through the top confirms my suspicions. Odd.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

	liza Are you up to date on your tetanus shots, Motts?

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

	liza Mr. Motts, please continue travelling further West. I know it is a long process, but you look pretty young to me.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate