#condemned building

[swforester]

Condemned/Abandoned.

Holyoke MA 3/17/25

[spyskrapbook]

“Dis/continuous Genealogies”, Oxygen House: A Near Triptych on the Act of Breathing [1993] _ Architect: Douglas Darden.

“Oxygen House is perched on a depressed floodplain north-northwest of Frenchman’s Bend, Mississippi. The structure is designed for Burnden Abraham, an ex-train signalman, who must live in an oxygen tent. In the early Spring of 1979, after torrential rains, the railroad tracks on which Abraham worked were flooded. They were never fully repaired. That following summer during a routine operation, Abraham suffered a collapsed lung when a train jumped the track and sent metal debris puncturing his right lung. Three years later the railroad company put the property up for sale. Abraham purchased the plot where he once had worked. He requested that his house be built over the scene of his near-fatal accident. Abraham also requested that he finally be entombed in the house.”  

Uddin, M.S. (1997). Composite Drawing: Techniques for Architectural Design Presentation, New York: McGraw-Hill, p. 124.

[elizjjwold]

by Elizabeth Johnson-Wold

[pastelcronenberg]

Model: me.

[pastelcronenberg]

Model: me.

[pastelcronenberg]

Me standing in an ugly place. :)

[idaofinfinity]

Aftermath

Lines break where the words

fail. What remains, what recedes,

is not a poem.

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Edited original photo.

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September Prompts 🌻 Word prompts to use for doodling or writing coffee smell horizon foggy mornings juke box lighthouse bonfire recipe book

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Here’s my gallery of unusual imagery from vintage college yearbooks.