Scarred Seclusion

Love this shot! Amazing.

This reminds me of the movie "Forbidden Planet" when the "id" melts down the walls! Excellent shot!

This is certainly one of my new favorites

Theres a real silent hill feeling about this shot. Love it

I can't even put it into words...

Man! You hitb the nail on the head.....SILENT HILL

Does'nt it just make you wonder what kind of child would have to be put behind a door like that.

Or what it would feel like being placed behind it

You're right, Motts. These are beautiful scars!

Excellent shot!

wow.
this door looks like it could be a portal to the underworld or something.

amazing shot.
love the colors.

Incredible, Motts. It looks so surreal.

Burned. In all of hearts of hearts, it will be burned forever. For whatever happened there or not happened there, there was a lot inspiration and a whole mess of desparation. You will always be the man, Motts.

Great picture! Looks like some one got a little happy with the torch. I especially like what appears to be a hand print "clawing" at the light switch. I'm glad to see there are others who compare these scenes to Silent Hill. That's exactly what I was thinking!

Your photos make me feel again.

Looks like something out of "Halloween"

Carol Anne's closet door in Poltergeist

way cool I could see "Pyramid Head" from "Silent Hill" standing on the other side of that door.

What's on the other side of the door?
Life
death or
in-between

I'm guessing dust, mold, maybe a little asbestos.

It looks like the torture these kids endured is trying to escape the room.

AWESOME shot though, wallpaper maybe?? Plz Motts?? =)

Hmm... Some people can find torture everywhere they look...

breath taking. i'm amazed

It looks like a crazy place! I like the scary texture to the door...

Pyramid head is waiting for you. Come to the other side.

Thats exactly what it looks like though...damn Pyramid Head. This shot is amazing!

totally gives me the heeby-jeebies

what an effect

Reminds me of something out of a "living dead" film, very frightening. I am not sure why. Well done as well, which of course does not hurt.

what a decrepid place, innocence of children whose minds are futher tainted by such ugliness and fear... great photos! very deep.

Fire doors reall do work !

Another shot only you could take. Amazing...

scarred walls that scarred so many lives... seems only fitting doesn't it ?

One of the best photos I think I've ever seen. You could definitely find a thousand words from this picture.

If you listen closely, you'll hear a thousand plus screams come from that room... Seclusion, striped naked as the day you was born and the only thing in the room was a blueish-green plastic mattress that, if you lift up you'll find shit and piss under, and that was what you had to sleep on.
No pillow, no blankets, no water, no food, no bathroom break.
Depending on what you did, your stay in here was for several hours or several days.

I don't think watching this ghost hunter show is helping me, but I'm getting such chills up and down my spine. Beautiful picture.

Haunting yet stunning. Reminds me of "the Room" in a story I've written.

i was there in 1985 while it was up and running and those rooms were no fun. That place was specifically for children, but some children's needs were made worse being locked up there. It was really not a nice place to be.

A CHILD THAT SWEARS WILL WIND UP ATTACKED AND PUT IN HERE. A CHILD WHO ISNT DOING EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE TOLD WILL BE PUT IN HERE .
A CHILD THAT MADE A STAFF MEMBER MAD WILL BE PUT IN HERE STAFF MEMBERS WITH GRUDGES AGAINST THE KIDS WERE EVIL SCUM....
4 POINT RESTRAINED KIDS WIND UP IN HERE..LIKE THEY ARE GETTING OUT ..KIDS WERE STRIPPED OF THEIR DIGNITY HERE ALONG WITH THEIR CLOTHES..KIDS WERE
LEFT HERE TO WALLOW IN SUFFERING WHILE THEY SCREAMED...KIDS WERE LEFT IN HERE FOR MANY HOURS WITH NO FOOD NO BATHROOM CALLS ..SO KIDS PISSED IN HERE..KIDS LIKE YOU COULD HAVE BEEN HERE THATS WHAT KIND OF KIDS WIND UP IN A ROOM LIKE THIS.
KIDS LIKE YOU.

THIS IS THE ROOM WHERE NO BODY HEARS YOUR SCREAMS ! THIS IS THE ROOM WHERE YOU DIE MORE EVERY DAY THIS IS THE ROOM THAT YOU ARE NO LONGER A HUMAN IN..THIS ROOM IS THERE TO PUNISH UMILIATE AND DEGRADE EVERY PART OF HUMAINITY YOU HAVE IN YOU.THIS IS THE ROOM THAT REALLY MAKES YOU ASK YOURSELF WHAT'S CRAZY.
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE FOR ME ..i DIE ANOTHER DAY AS I DIE ANOTHER WAY AT THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO WOULD NOT CARE TO SEE WHO I AM OR WHAT I MIGHT BE..I DIE MORE EVERYDAY.

Tis shot is completely beautiful. I could cry from the emotion that screams from its very existence. Unbelievably AMAZING.

Jima,
Unbelievably Amazing???????
A beautiful shot????????
You can't imagine what we went through in these rooms!
No Jima, these shots are not beautiful nor are they amazing.

These shots are beautiful. They express what no words ever could. You misenterpreted my statements. I never said they were positive. But so much lies behind this image that it simply boggles the mind. The energy and stories that it would tell if it could are amazing.

I need to say (and if I could I would be actually SHOUTING) READ THE COMMENTS FROM THOSE WHO ACTUALLY GOT PUT IN THESE PLACES before you write. I am close to tears here as I read from Gaebler school girl then immediately after, a comment reading 'amazing' and 'beautiful' . I am not diminishing anyone's viewpoint (sorry Jima) but I really feel these people's pain as they look at these images. Motts, you are a GREAT photographer and a sensitive artist. You must feel responsible for evoking these reactions in people who lived these things first hand?

This site is so depressing when you think of the subject matter being captured. Thank you for taking these photos as it give us an appreciation of what should never happen to kids.

Seeing this picture and hearing the comments of john and gaebler school girl give me some closure to that part of my life. This let's me see that there are people that have gone through what I've gone through and it helps. As for the picture! It looks now what it felt like then. "Dark, dirty, and forgotten" I use to lay on the floor with my mouth near the bottom of the door, and scream out. I would scream for hours and hours knowing that people could hear me. After 8 or 9 hours shawna or audrie would yell from there room and I would stop. I don't know why I stopped, maybe because I knew then that there were kids out there that were here with me and I wasn't alone. For some reason shawna's "from ward A" talking to me in the rec room always helped me a lot. I keep looking at this picture every day and I read the words people wrote and I just feel better inside. I don't know how we all made it through this but we did. Maybe it's because this was just a part of normal life to all of us. And that's how we lived. Some day we'll all get together as a reunion or something like that. But till then this sight will be great. Keep adding comments. And thank you all.

Merry christmas to all of us who never had one then

Hey, I am personally starting a new group in yahoo for former patients to openly discuss their time at Gaebler. Please feel free to come by and visit.


Group name: GCC2010
Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GCC2010
Group email: GCC2010@yahoogroups.com