Modernism

Excellent tour!!! My fave pic was the hungrey rabbit.

Thanks for the fantastic gallery, but Motts, what did this place look like on the outside? Did it LOOK like half of a building?

Doh! =)

Thanks, Motts for another wonderful gallery!!!! I love your work!

Thank you Sir Motts.

After shoveling the driveway (and sledding some) I came inside to a wonderful surprise by Mister Motts. <3

Yes, Thanks Mr. Motts, I would love to see the exterior of this place!!! Have a great Christmas!! ;-)

Seriously...WOW..great gallery and thanks again!

big time thx! really great shots, just like paintings.

Mr. Motts - once again, you have outdone yourself. Well done, and thank you - not only for the pleasure I get from looking at these incredible shots, but also for preserving these bits of history.

Really good gallery! I was waiting for some new photos to browsethrough! Thanks!

This newer equipment seems so out of place after all the pictures before this one..... thank you for another wonderful tour Mr. Motts, and Merry Christmas to you and yours! I can't wait to see the rest of this place.

Yes, Motts. Fantastic! I still haven't seen them all. I skipped through, its kinda late...I will go through all tomorrow...Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night....
(*** except'n fer one, eh, Twug?....***)

Yep, Tony, exceptin' fer one!

Im relatively new to this site after seeing the boat graveyard featured in a magazine here in England, ive been fascinated by all the photos on this site ever since i was old enough to understand what happened at Chernobyl in 1986 and see the photos of the abandoned classrooms and now overgrown playgrounds, i find it heartbreaking that these once great buildings are now left as empty shells but Motts has a God given gift for preserving these sites and long may it continue!

Well said Paul!

Lynne, would you know what this small wheel chair was used for?

It's a tilt-in-space wheelchair. They are marvy.

Here:

http://phc-online.com/images/quickie_ts.jpg
http://www.abledata.co...s/images/98A0443.jpg
http://www.avenuemedic...ic/solara_jr_big.jpg

Thanks lynne, seeing it from the front makes it easy to see how it works, your allways good for information like this. ;-)

Hey, Doc Lynne, are these mostly used for spinal injury patients? In Atlanta, we have the Shepherd Spinal Center, and I thought I recognized this wheelchair as similar to one I saw there.

Hearing voices, eh, Mr. Motts? Back in the day, for that they didn't let you leave there, you had to STAY! Muahahaha!

Another great gallery, Motts!

Not specifically - just for folks who don't walk on their own, so it certainly does include people with spinal injuries. Many of the folks I work with have cerebral palsy or other motor issues. These chairs are nice because you don't have to always sit in the same position (i.e., at a 90 degree angle with the seat parallel to the floor); you can tilt these and set them so that your weight is distributed differently at different angles, and then you have less risk of skin breakdown and pressure ulcers. It's also helpful if you need to be inclined at a particular angle while eating (such as if you have dysphagia and have problems swallowing) - then you don't have to be taken out of your chair, placed in another chair and repositioned, then taken back out and put back in your regular chair. Finally, a number of folks have a difficult time readjusting themselves voluntarily due to their motor limitations, so this makes them more comfortable.

Sometimes when we are training new staff we ask them to try an experiment where they have to sit in a chair or lie in bed and not move for a certain period of time, just as if they had some of the same physical limitations our folks have, such as not having the motor ability to move themselves around or adjust themselves as most of us unconsciously do every few minutes. Often all it takes is 15 minutes before people are extremely uncomfortable because you take for granted your ability to self-adjust for your comfort level.

Anyway, these chairs are grand because they are also lighter weight yet more sturdy. If you've ever helped push someone in a wheelchair for any amount of time and on even the slightest slope you'll very quickly appreciate the changes they have made in these devices over the years.

Thanks for another risky set.
Good to see a nice, creepy one again. :)

Thanks for the info, Lynne, it's always nice to get some background information from someone in the know.

Thanks to Motts, and all the cool viewers @ this site.. Have a GREAT Holiday...

To Motts, thank you again. and to all the "kindered" and not kindered have a wonderful holiday, and a great New Year. Looking foreward to many more Motts Galleries in 2006!!!!!

Great site! It is a welcome distraction from all of the destruction down here in Louisiana.

The sorely missed lone wheelchair shot..Mr. Motts, u are a genius.

The things you have seen amaze me, your work,...untouchable, Thank-you!

untouchable work my friend!!! that was awsome. thank you. :)

Motts, you are creative to say the least! You make this place come alive, and I can feel what it could have been like in its heyday years. This has been an awesome adventure, and I did not even have to leave my home! Keep it up and bring more!

Beautiful images - with a sad past - I feel the fears of those who where there.

Easy to get lost in the pictures - can't help but wonder what went on there in all those rooms and halls (so many years ago). If I could walk around like I did when I was younger, I would love to go there. You are a great photographer, you captured the spirit of your subject.

modernism or not, that creeps me out!

Anyone think that the light in the doorway at the end of the hall in this picture looks a little like a face looking down the corridor??? With a cross next to it. Spooky man

cool gallery

I have just started too look into this Urban Explortion and your pics are the most awsome I have ever seen. Great work, GREAT feeling. I can stop watching the :P thnaks for a great tour.

on your last pic you said you heard voices. did you have any haunting experiences, love your work.

Voices?Do you hear voices often when in these deserted asylum's?You are a braver man than I
Motts.

From the intro that Motts wrote for this site:

"Being inside was very nerve-wracking as workers and police were constantly moving in and around the building, knowing that every time I could hear them they could just as easily hear me inside was always on my mind."

Motts, I have surely enjoyed every picture that you have on this site...I am not a picture lover of any sort, I came up on your web site when I was searching for pics of the Mole People in New York. I did not find what I originally was looking for, but I have became addicted to your pictures, the stories that are behind! I have traveled quite a bit since I joined the Air Force in 1998 and I have always thought that all the wonderful things that I see should be photographed. Your site has give me new insight into how wonderful a picture can be!

Mole People, huh? Is that some new species in the town of my birth?

by far one of the best galleries. The new ,"uncovering the past", is genius.
I'v recently taken 2 looking at the galleries while listening 2 the Silent Hill OSt, it's a great combination. Both work's inspire me so much.
Keep up the art.

motts....You inspire me in writting so much!
thanks for that cause I couldn't write for a while now... untill I discovered your galleries...

woot!

oh man, this looks so much like utica state.... i am convinced it might be, it was my first place i explored and my favorite...ive been there more than 20 times

If I could get directions to one place on this site, it would be this place. Undoubtedly my favorite album, and it sounded like such an amazing trip. Soooo jealous.

thank you so much motts.

Motts you are truely amazing. I would love to see your pictures in a book. Thank you for the wonderful gallery

One of the best...........thank you!

Omfg... that's creepy. Voices? really? How? That place looks so abandoned...
*Has imaginative visions* It's so creepy.

Wow. Thanks for such an interesting and creepy gallery! :)

wheelschair is ever an horryfing scene

My mother was a patient there in the mid 1960's to the 1980's , was a truly horrible depressing place where there seemed to be no fresh air, thats what I recall most aside from all the locked doors, just that feeling of stale air and being confined . youd come out of there and take a big breath. my mother just got worse and worse there. I cant see how anyone could have gotten better in such a dark depressing place. your photo's are terrific.

Thanks Mr. Motts for another awsome gallery to see.

Hey Motts, this was really an impressive trip you took. Rabbitpicture was freaky.

You Admire me when you take these pictures of Abandoned Places. These places you go to are Fantastic to see on your Site. Thanks again Motts for another wonderful gallery to see everyday.

Wow, this is my first time, Mr. Mott! And I LOVE your pictures. I could look at them, being scared, and then staring open-mouthly, without wanting to pee my self. It is beautifully scary!

Just want to show you how grateful am I. I was looking for an inspiration to made a story (a homework) and then I could write 3 paragraphs based on only one of your picture! It held so much feeling inside of it!