It's almost as if the chair is watching itself and its surroundings age, so slowly, yet steadily. Like it wants to escape so bad, but it cannot. Maybe that's how the patients felt...
This photo just sorta hit me, and you can just imagine an exhaughsted hospital worker stuffing something in those shelves, or maybe another sneaking something. You can see the age, and decay, but they still stand. amazing really...
One day it will be abandoned Walmarts and malls that will be featured on sites like this, beautiful at last in their decay. One kind of modern site that becomes absolutely strange and fascinating in only a few short years are large-scale greenhouses. I explored one in Hadley (since torn down) ; extremely dry heat, huge, distorted plants, broken glass everywhere, dusty, filtered light...
When I worked at Belchertown State School, we had storage areas like this, called "clothing rooms". Unfortunately, back in the 70's, the lower-functioning clients didn't have their own clothes; instead, they were given one-size-fits-all pants with elastic waists, etc. All those box-like shelves would be stuffed with sorted clothes that staff would pull out indiscriminately. (In some of the buildings I worked in, the clothes were soon torn off anyway).
Johnnsy, I'm guessing (I may be wrong) that the floor is actually covered with the ceiling and walls... It looks like the ceiling has fallen down and rotted onto the floor, combined with some of the chunks of wall...
oh well this is simply an amazing shot, it includes so much. you got the hallway, a door with paint peeling slowly off, another room with an arched ceiling off to the right, and the odd looking fallen light fixture in the foreground. my favorite of this gallery so far, yet so many more pics to come, can't be too quick to judge! =)