92 Comments Posted by mammabear

Some of these images I can easily visualize as an oil painting. Such vivid colors and contrast.

Yes, the heads are disproportionate to their bodies. Baby/toddler heads are much bigger in comparison to the rest of their bodies than adult's are, that's why they look so bizare, like miniature adults. We studied this in my drawing class when I was in college.

Someday, Mr. Motts, your photographs will be all that's left of these places. Eventually they will all be gone. Even if you don't make much of a profit off them, you should be proud that you're recording an important piece of history, and having a lot of fun in the meantime. No one else cares about these places enough to capture their beauty while they're still standing. They tell the story of the people who lived with mental illness at a time when there was little that could be done to treat them. It's a story that needs to be told.

Thank you for having the balls to climb up there to get this shot. Really impressive.

I've seen similar mechanisms in greenhouses.

I think it's interesting that you see all the crappy new houses in the background, like that's the real prison.

Yes Larry D, nightmarish. The sky is red.

It looks to me like it says EAST over the door...

Oh my, Mr. Motts. This one speaks to me. So beautiful, I love the sepia tone and the green vines complimenting eachother. I feel like I'm there, with nothing but the breeze blowing and twigs snapping under my feet. Is that a big pane of glass above the vines?

It took me a second to get the perspective in this one. At first glance I thought it was a close up of something.

So pretty.

A huge part of the celing in the house I grew up in caved in like this. I wasn't in the room to see it, but I heard the crash. The result of a leaking roof. We had a 6 foot wide gaping hole in the celing for days.