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Empty Room

Empty Room

Apathy and boredom were always recurring problems in state institutions; I can always imagine patients sitting in rooms like these, watching the patches of sunlight slowly creep across the floors as the days wear on.
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good analogy - I even got the visial there.
silkster40z@aol.com
Mon 03-21-2005
I know the feeling all to well, when watching the sun pass across the floor gets too boring and looking out the windows is just too sad we would walk around "speed walking". (I was never here but another place years ago).
Draikar
Wed 04-06-2005
i get a visual of flickering bright lites in an all white room with just a boy sitting in a there rocking back and forth like he is forgotten
thoughts
Wed 10-26-2005
This proves my point that there are fates worse than death.
Tina J.
Fri 03-17-2006
If a person was truly given the choice of actual death and being here, I am guessing that most people would opt for being here.

In my humble opinion, that is. :-)
Lynne
Fri 03-17-2006
Lynne, I guess what I was trying to say, wasif my mind ever took a permanent vacation, I dont want the rest of me left behind.quality vs quantity type of thing.
Tina J.
Tue 04-04-2006
Got it! :-)
Lynne
Tue 04-04-2006
that is a really sad picture, lonely picture
rtotten
Wed 04-05-2006
I really love this shot! Reminds me of an old temple.
Nancy
Tue 06-06-2006
Been there done that for 10 years at an institution in Waltham Mass It was called at that time the Walter E. Fernald State School, It's now called the Fernald center, But a name doesn't change what once was, It's still an institution
Joseph Almeida
Fri 06-16-2006
i agree with tina j, i would hate to spend the rest of my life looked at as a handicap
~Cortni~
cortni
Tue 06-20-2006
anyone know what building this one is...i must have missed it
mikeymisery
Tue 09-05-2006
THERE IS SO MUCH PAST AS U WALK THROUGH. IF YOU HAVE A WEAK HEART, YOU WOULD NOT COME HERE AT NIGHT
PRINCESS STARFACE
Sun 09-09-2007
Very sparse.
Katie
Mon 09-10-2007
The decay and starkness is endless and you capture it so well...You turn it all into an amazing work of art.
Amazed
Thu 02-14-2008
My aunt worked there. She told me some of the things that went on. I also went there on my own and took pictures. It's creepy, but really cool. I entered this room and received a forbiding feeling before even capturing a visual. What could this mean?
Lonelyand Confused
Fri 04-04-2008
You have a tumor?
CAS
Fri 04-04-2008
I guess those of us that have never had to be in an instution at all in there life (including me) we should be very thankful for what we have. Some of these people (from what I've heard & read here) they had nothing not even families that cared about them. But like others have mentioned here in this thread too ....I agree with Lynne that I would rather be there than be gone.....but than yet I never had to live there some of the Pennhurst residence my tell a much different story? I guess that is there story to tell really.......my heart goes out to them though......
blue lamp
Sun 03-28-2010
lovely shot
luis arroyo
Fri 09-24-2010
it looks like a room that housed many of patients that sufferd in Pennhurst state insane asylum
ilovezakbagans
Mon 01-03-2011
I don't know, Lynne, with all due respect... in the '68 news footage, a boy was asked it he'd prefer riches or leaving Pennhurst. He replied that he'd rather leave.
gypsy74
Fri 06-03-2011

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