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Jules-Cyrille Cavé — Girl with a Bouquet of Daisies. detail. 1897

Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse I have a love of all things miniature. As a young adult, I collected small Japanese toys from a company called Rement. During the summer after completing graduate school I had some down time and decided to use my commercial photography skills to shoot my miniature collection as though it were "real". Also during that time, I also frequently watched shows like "Hoarders" and "How Clean Is Your House?" With that in mind, this past summer I began creating the images that are presented here, though I reflect their inspiration as a mirror and not a judgement. For me, this series is about creating a small, but perfect world where the viewer cannot distinguish between what is reality and what is fiction. Represented by the William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO. Limited editions of 32" x 48" and 48" x 72" prints available. Prices on request. www.shearburngallery.com

#hoarding abandoned dollhouse dolls

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Why isn’t love enough?

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Abandoned Island in the Middle of NYC

Located in between Queens and the Bronx, in 1885 the island was used to build a hospital complex to quarantine and treat people suffering from smallpox and typhoid fever. In the 1950’s it was turned into a rehab center. The entire island has been abandoned since 1963…More

#abandoned #Urban Decay

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Trash bag sculptures by Khalil Chishtee

#art #sculpture

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#abandoned #piano

The Silent Twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons.

Incredibly, nobody had thought the twins’ silent pact was of real concern until they were 14 years old and attending secondary school. By then the girls seemed beyond reach, locked in an imaginative world of role-playing, diary-writing and drawing during long hours in their bedroom. Only their younger sister, Rosie, had been allowed to penetrate the wall between them and the outside world. Their parents and two older siblings, Greta and David, were excluded.

June and Jennifer were moved to a residential special school, the Eastgate Centre, but their bond strengthened with every failed attempt to tease them out of their silence or separate them.

As the years went on the twins’ love for one another became infused with violence as a struggle for power ensued. “They had these rituals where they decided between them which one would wake up in the morning first, which one would breathe first, and the other one wasn’t allowed to breathe until the first one breathed,” says Wallace. “It was like some sinister childhood game that had gone out of control.” Wallace quickly noticed they would signal to each other with the tiniest flicker of the eye as they moved in painfully slow synchronicity. Ultimately, though, Jennifer was controlling June.

More here.

#strange #twins #silence