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Whoa! I thought I would visit the little black sheep again. I didn't expect them to have gained such a "tail"! As a normal child I often created works of art to please, anger, excite, and awe others. Many had no particular meaning. Often they were "works of circumstance". If I was near a field of cows, maybe a drew a cow getting run over or flying or some other such nonsense. Maybe I just thought it would be funny. Often the simplist explanation is the best one. In this case here, we have the artist who has clearly explained the art work. Case closed. She had her experiences and others had different experiences. Some were abused, but most were not. You can't think of the past in terms of today. The ways of thinking and the information available always effects what happens in any time frame. Often it wasn't known that the things that were done were harmful. We have the benefit today of knowing so many more things then people used to.

You have my gratitude, as always, Motts. Beautiful gallery.

"My time here is over
The end of life draws nigh
No more footsteps, no laughter
All have passed away
I once was proud and regal
I once stood tall and strong
Scorched by fire and abandoned
Walls are falling, staircase crumbling
A shadow of what once was
I have grown so weary
I can hold on no more
I bid you farewell
As I depart, forgotten."

I love this picture, it's suitably creepy, I'd love to be able to go beyond those doors and into the darkness.

I took an amateurish picture on my phone a few months ago of a pair of doors in my local hospital, just through the grubby plastic windows in these doors you could see sterile whiteness, think it might have been a morgue!

Kinda looks like the illustrations from those books, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. wispy, ya know

Ace picture! I'd love that effect in my room, maybe not with those colours though! Something a bit more cheery, like red on pink!

OMG! My aunt and uncle live in Great Barr, this being my aunt and uncle who are always inviting me and my girlfriend to stay over! Next time I'm there I SO have to check this place out!

I like this one a lot!

For some reason I'm in love with this shot--the angle is just fantastic!

Just tripped over this site! I can't believe Halcyon Hall is so bad! ('70) Alum. I attended under full scholarship gnerously given by Bennett. Met my husband there. A friend's room was on the top floor of Halcyon - huge old room. Loved that building. There were new dorms too - but loved Halcyon. What a shame not only to Millbrook, but to all the very rich alumni! Where are the Fords, Rockefellers, Pillsburys? Where is Cab Calloway's daughter? And What about Molly Ferrer? Her brother is the star on Crossing Jordon; her mom Rosemary Clooney; her dad Jose Ferrer; her aunt was Audrey Hepburn. Where are all these ladies? This is absolutely horrific! I wonder what condition the Chapel is in? And the Library? And the Greek Theatre (A beautiful amphi-theatre)?

Thank-you, Mathue. It is so disturbing to see how absolutely regal and beautiful it once was. To let something like this go to waste is a shame.

Lol, ben of the jungle, what the heck would you do with a leg brace? I guess you could hang it on your wall or something...

It is comforting in na way that one art form that has been physically destroyed has been preserved by another form of art. : )

Hmm, I notice all of these buildings in Europe that were abandoned in the '90s are in terrible shape, and look like they've been abandoned as long as some of the buildings you've shot here in the US that have been abandoned since the '70s or '80s. Weather perhaps?

Why thank you Kadee. (gives a bow)