18 Comments Posted by Benihana

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" is a translation from Dante Aleighiri's The Devine Comedy (written in the 1300s). It is the inscription above the gates of hell.

This is not for foot traffic. If it was, you would have to duck under the metal bars. : )

porthole on the left, and that interesting weight on that wire hanging around the door...

...such tiny controls for such a huge machine...

OK, so I'm trying to figure out why the lines that run from the wall to the dispenser are missing. I've read on some other galleries that all of the copper piping had been ripped out...I'm assuming to be sold at scrap yards. Is this the same reason maybe that the lines are gone?

footprints...

Those cabinets in the back look like they were emptied yesterday...

Tanya...overhead lights broken out (?)

The plastic liner wrapped around the headrest is my favorite part. It adds life to this cold shot.

Forgive my stereotypical, naive comments, but the irony is startling...the rest of the living space seems dark and lifeless, yet the room for the preparation of the dead is bright and airy.

Off topic...I'm really curious about that list paper on the floor. I find 2-week-old lists in the back seat of my car and even those interest me...I wish I could see this one...

I always thought that ACME was just a made up company in those Roadrunner + Coyote cartoons...

The H+C knobs and the tub come together to look like a severely unproportional face...either smiling or moaning...

Do the shopping carts belong to former homeless residents of the building maybe? (Were there hobos living there ever?)

is that a fire hose hanging off the top landing?