Asylum Seekers
Bathroom, Central State Hospital, Milledgeville, GA. (taken of photo at Clic with my i-Phone) Last Thursday night, my intrepid gallery-hopping gang of five and I left the opening of the must-see exhibit at hous projects, The Naked Truth in search of pizza and literally stumbled across another reception just winding down at Clic bookstore on Centre Street. Recently I have been rather obsessed with the beauty to be found in decayed and dilapidated matter, both natural and man-made. It feels timely, as part of the agri-tecture trend that I've been noticing recently. I fell instantly in love with the images on the walls at Clic of abandoned mental health hospitals. They're taken from a book of photographs by Christopher Payne called, Asylum, Inside the Closed World of Mental Hospitals. I shot the one above of a bathroom with my i-Phone. I love the vines crawling down the walls inside. Norwich State Hospital , Preston, Conn. Yankton State Hospital, Yankton, S.D. Sprin...