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Bright red fungi fruiting spores leap out of a decaying branch. I love the way an old leaf as also found its way onto the same branch, making its own unique imprint.
This is the ironlak safe room and it has some interesting graffiti in it, plus some fire damaged wallpaper that is decayed and peeling off the walls
ODC Emotional Resonance
There is something about this decaying old shed in our woods that really gets to me. I think it is because it is just SO beautiful - the colours, the textures and the light. It's like Autumn - things are dying, but they do so in a spectacular way, with such beauty and such wonderful colours.
Sárszentmihály, Fejér county.
Little mansion of Count Zichy family. Built in the 18th century, rebuilt in 1816 and 1864.
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A Zichy-család elsÅ‘ szentmihályi kúriája a XVIII. században épült. Ezt Zichy Ferenc királyi fÅ‘pohárnokmester 1810 körül kibÅ‘vÃttette, és kápolnát emeltetett mellé. Fia, Ödön, a szentmihályi ág alapÃtója 1865-ben ismét átépÃttette a kastélyt. Összekötötték a kápolnával, melyre emeletet épÃtettek. Ekkor kapta mai formáját: hosszan elnyúló, téglalap alakú épület, fÅ‘homlokzata elÅ‘tt lombfűrészes fatornác fut végig.
Shot with my Nikon D7000
Santa Coloma de Gramanet
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Polaroid Type 55 (1997 vintage!) This stuff always brings a smile to my face when I use it........
Decaying concrete can be quite photogenic. Depends on how you see it, of course.......beauty being in the eye of the beholder!
At the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum in Strasburg. Old rolling stock sitting in the elements soon (a few decades) develops a new personality. In this image, the distance from one side to the other is a few inches. Post processed in LR.
Birnbeck Pier, WestonSuper Mare.
Over a century ago the venue for gentlefolk to take a refreshing stroll by the sea. Now near to collapse.
Some years ago, the ring road around Stockholm was extended towards the east. This area with offices and warehouses is now disused since it is to close to the new motorway. I go there once in a while to document the decay.
Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface. The Dining Room features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.
One of the most dramatic features of Eastern State is the use of windows and skylights to bring light into the cell blocks. Though it had flushing toilets before the White House, electricity had not yet been harnessed to light these ominous spaces.
Date:2007-09-09 15:37:32
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DECAYING HOUSE
Hudson / Greenport NY
November 2010
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