103 Comments Posted by girljaye

Awesome contrasts - in color, texture, and subject.

See! Dropped ceiling covering up what could be something different & interesting. This was on its way to becoming an antiseptic tube long ago =( It's like the building has now dropped its antiseptic tube pants and is running for freedom! I'm not sure what that means... What did I just say?!

Was there a fire in this part of the building? The upper walls and ceiling leading into the gaping maw look kind of sooty. Even the lines left by condensation on the walls look sooty.

Great contrasts here, Motts! This looks like the gaping black maw of some diabolical abyss... it's so creepy! And yet at the same time, diametrically fascinating... I want to run in there and check it out... but at the same time I want to run away screaming... so confused...

This is like the evil twin brother of the hallway in the last photo.

And the semi-circular window above the doorway... That's pretty, too. That doorway's kind of wierd, too, no that I really look at it. There's only one door... Right in the middle of the opening... wierd.

This is kind of a creepy looking pic! The way the banister's all jagged and kind of thwanged off to the side at the end there make it look kind of like a creepy little stairway to nowhere. But the ceiling sure is pretty! =)

This is so beautiful. It's like it's been sitting there, frozen in time, just waiting for someone to come back and care. This room is so beautifully preserved, it seems like you could just sweep the little debris up off the floor, turn on the lights, and it would be all ready for a holiday ball.

I hope they're not going to renovate this into some kind of antiseptic tube. What beautiful colors. Even the colors of decay are beautiful in this photo.

AH-HA! So that's what those crazy torchiere shaped thingies were on the wall in that other photo of the chapel! That looks like an interesting border pattern, and even like lettering that might have been on the wall behind what probably was a sconce that held some type of religious object. I wonder why they would have placed it over the lettering?

This is kind of a sad shot. I think of all of the fingers that must've played that organ... did it bring a moment's joy or peace or even comfort to those troubled ears that listened? This once was a thing of beauty, and now it sits there, lonely and abandoned, falling to pieces. Thank you for letting us see it, Motts =)

What an awesome shot! I love the rays of light peeking in from the bottom. The lines in this are fabulous. I love the contrast of the arched curves and the cut-away peak against the intersecting straight lines.

Hey, is that pillar stone, Motts? I just thought at first that it was a wooden pillar that had once been white but is now coated with layers of artistically patterned grime (if that's grime, then it's AMAZINGLY artistically patterned!). But Java makes me think that it might be some kind of stone... can't tell for sure from the pic. Whichever it is, it's an awesome shot! Motts, your angles are fantastic!

I can't quite make out exactly what those three things are against the back wall. They're kind of shaped like short torchiere lamps, but they almost look like they might be stains on the wall itself. I need to get up the guts to go explore abandoned buildings for myself sometime - I could spend hours investigating a place like this and looking at all the little details of what used to be everyday life. Oh well, until I do, I'll hang out on Motts' site and let him do the dirty work =) Hey, is that ceiling PINK?

Oh wow, the ceiling structure in this hallway is awesome! They just don't build them like that anymore, do they? Hallways these days - especially in institutionalized establishments - are like antiseptic tubes (except they're square, so I guess they can't really be tubes... huh...) This must've been a beautiful place once, too bad it carries so many tragic memories alongside that beauty.