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Building Map

reddll

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

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Gatherings

Cartoons

reddll

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

Location: York Street Jail  Gallery: The Big House

Shadow Box

reddll

"Little Box of Horrors"

Location: York Street Jail  Gallery: The Big House

Red Door

reddll

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

Location: York Street Jail  Gallery: The Big House

Showers

reddll

Where bending over becomes a risk taking event.

Location: York Street Jail  Gallery: The Big House

Caged Off Area

reddll

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

Location: York Street Jail  Gallery: The Big House

Crime Scene Tape

reddll

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.

Location: York Street Jail  Gallery: The Big House

Pit Of Oblivion

reddll

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.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: The Sadness

Extravagant Fireplace

reddll

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

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Lockdown

Bottom of Stairs

reddll

Why thank you Kadee. (gives a bow)

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 136 & 137 (Medical-Surgical)

Bottom of Stairs

reddll

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

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 136 & 137 (Medical-Surgical)

Bottom of Stairs

reddll

"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)

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 136 & 137 (Medical-Surgical)

Elevator Detector Annunciator

reddll

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.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 136 & 137 (Medical-Surgical)

Seated

reddll

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

Location: Great Barr Colony (St Margaret's Hospital)  Gallery: St Margaret's Hospital

Welcome

reddll

An explosion of plant life!

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

The Battle

reddll

A very colorful and appealing Nature vs. Man shot!

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

Tap Bells and Mouth Gags

reddll

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.

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

Sunlight

reddll

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

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

The Box

reddll

Intriguing

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

Hall

reddll

It looks like an Army bunker.

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

Violets

reddll

It looks like a gingerbread house.

Location: Great Barr Colony (St Margaret's Hospital)  Gallery: St Margaret's Hospital

Peaks

reddll

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

Location: Great Barr Colony (St Margaret's Hospital)  Gallery: St Margaret's Hospital

Chapel

reddll

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

Location: Great Barr Colony (St Margaret's Hospital)  Gallery: St Margaret's Hospital

Sub-level

reddll

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

Location: Great Barr Colony (St Margaret's Hospital)  Gallery: St Margaret's Hospital

Brick And Wood

reddll

It looks like a brick cave.

Location: Great Barr Colony (St Margaret's Hospital)  Gallery: St Margaret's Hospital