I am sooo happy to find this website! Excellent photography not to mention very entertaining to read comments while admiring. I am ecstatic to find other people that like this kind of stuff too!
I am thinking there some places on the web where people who are undergoing psychiatric treatment write blogs and don't mind sharing them with others. As well, I am sure there are books that people have written about the time they spent in a mental health facility. Of course, once you know that someone else is going to read whatever you write, whether you are the patient or the staff, you tend to censor yourself. And if anyone is going to publish you for the "masses," they want things to be pretty exciting.
I will look and see if there are any resources or references for folks who have an interest in this.
Motts:
In your description of this photo you mentioned and old floor plan. Typically do you find these documents at these sites or do you acquire them beforehand?
These devices convert 3 pahse AC to dc. Looking at the device the section in the front is a dc generator, and the section in the rear is a 3 pahse AC motor. The whole machine could be replaved whtih a bridge rectifier {a solid state device] that you could hold in the palm of your hand.
I love the shots with Drie in this series. The presence of a person in these places sets up an interesting contrast (e.g. abandoned, but still occupied in a way). This one in screams exploration to me.
Maybe they thought that they would sell the site to someone else shortly after closing it? It would probably be more appealing (and easier for everyone) to just sell the site and the furniture all together. If that was the plan, looks like it didn't work out.