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Wow, love the colors here...the peeling paint looks surreal, like it's disappearing piece by piece.
I Love Decay
Wed 04-06-2011
I agree, I Love Decay.
Lady Ethereal Butterfly
Thu 04-07-2011
Amazing. I guess that is lead-based paint?
BKWOntario
Thu 04-07-2011
Great arch to the banister and love the sea green peeling paint as it turns a interesting purplish color near the top.
LucieLou
Thu 04-07-2011
That is really cool. My 3-1/2 year old daughter said "Mama...that looks like a big lizard coming up the steps!" LOL! Leave it to a preschooler to have such an imagination. :)
MamaToFiveInPA
Thu 04-07-2011
The wall looks like an unfinished jigsaw puzzle.
TootUncommon
Thu 04-07-2011
BKWontario, I "just so happen to be" a painter of 12 years. they only used lead on trim not walls. (similar to these days, some people use oil on trim and latex on walls.

(sorry, i love to answer paint related questions, i think its in my blood lol)
colin
Thu 04-07-2011
Great colors! It's almost whimsical.
redinkreign
Thu 04-07-2011
Beautiful. Simply beautiful.
Larry D
Thu 04-07-2011
More bare wall than paint at this point.
Ferdy
Thu 04-07-2011
Hmm...I think some of the pieces from the puzzle are missing...

Maybe I will take some of my quaaludes (see previous picture) and get back to you on that one.
MamaToFiveInPA
Fri 04-08-2011
Huh that wall looks like it has a skin disease.
A D Nilsen
Fri 04-08-2011
I think the paint is a good metaphor for this, and many of the other sites Motts had shared with us through his galleries: Slowly, piece by piece, shriveling up, becoming just a smaller bit of once was, until eventually nothing remains......
potbellynine
Sun 04-10-2011
...and after the previous pic, all quiet in the stairwell.
STL girl
Thu 04-14-2011
the paint chips look almost like shattered glass...
addy
Sun 05-22-2011

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