This reminds me of those car play mats that I had as a child. To think, some artist created this and there it sits.

Why the heck would there even be such a weird wall in jail?

"Little Box of Horrors"

How appropriate! The "red light district" and here the "red door district"! Hee Hee, couldn't help it! Sorry!

Where bending over becomes a risk taking event.

I wonder if they were trying to keep them in with the sinks or out of the sinks?

Tsk, Tsk. I have some of this very stuff. Actual "cop" tape is better made. This is that cheap stuff you can buy at Halloween and from novelty stores.

Whoa! I thought I would visit the little black sheep again. I didn't expect them to have gained such a "tail"! As a normal child I often created works of art to please, anger, excite, and awe others. Many had no particular meaning. Often they were "works of circumstance". If I was near a field of cows, maybe a drew a cow getting run over or flying or some other such nonsense. Maybe I just thought it would be funny. Often the simplist explanation is the best one. In this case here, we have the artist who has clearly explained the art work. Case closed. She had her experiences and others had different experiences. Some were abused, but most were not. You can't think of the past in terms of today. The ways of thinking and the information available always effects what happens in any time frame. Often it wasn't known that the things that were done were harmful. We have the benefit today of knowing so many more things then people used to.

It is comforting in na way that one art form that has been physically destroyed has been preserved by another form of art. : )

Why thank you Kadee. (gives a bow)

Adam, adam, adam. Such limitations you put on your own life. Sad.

"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. "
John Cage
(US composer of avant-garde music 1912 - 1992)

"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. "
John Constable
(English landscape painter 1776 - 1837)

"Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist."
Margaret Cho
(Margaret Cho's weblog, 03-23-06)

Adam, you are supposed to be looking at the photos here. This is an ARTISTIC web site. Regardless of where or of what they are taken, the photo itself is art. I don't think that attacking the others here is a very valid way of getting your own opinion across. It just comes across as crude, unimpressive, and childish behavior.

Thanks Joy! I knew it was an old, old saying.

An explosion of plant life!

A very colorful and appealing Nature vs. Man shot!

Don't you think that maybe just a few TB patients were depressed just a bit? All those people dying around you that have exactly what you have, not being able to move on with your life, being stuck in the same place all the time? I would assume that the Hospital handled all of the aspects of the patients health care.

What an inviting porch! It appeals to one to "come and rest for awhile".

Intriguing

It looks like an Army bunker.

It looks like a gingerbread house.

Is that a tarp or something on the roof? Maybe someone intended on renovating this at one point?

Ahhh, the ironies of life.
It would make a wonderful greenhouse.
This is an awe-inspiring shot.

It looks like the sub-basements beneath the Coleseum (sp?).

It looks like a brick cave.