The odds and ends in the creative world of Thendara M Kida-Gee.
It has been a year since my last visit to Northern State Hospital Farm.
Today kids were running around spraying plastic pellets from toy guns at one another.
Another woman seemed to be photographing families - mostly those whose kids seemed indignant about the situation.
Here's a hole in the wall.
A Hole in the Wall at Northern State Hospital Farm
I loved these dark images, possibly too dark for some.
This has been one of my favorite places to visit over the past three years.
I have folders of images that haven't been processed and are awaiting discovery. I like this.
In the same way that I still have books to read by some of my favorite authors, who have ceased to exist at this point and won't be writing anymore.
Savor the flavor of the experience, for me I can dip back into this emotionality that this place evokes quite easily when playing with these images.
Northern State Hospital Farm
Looking from inside where the dairy cows once got milked.
Milking stations to the left milking stations to the right.
I have been adding images to This Life in Ruins.
Some of the ones I have been revisiting are these from 2005 of The Thamesmead Housing Estate. Recent photographs show bits being torn down.
Quite a few things have been filmed here including "Clockwork Orange"
I am sorry not to get to bear witness and capture it's demise and rebirth. I have in my searches come across some nice images but my favorite so far are at:
Please do have a look, some lovely images that give a sympathetic eye to the idealistic origins of these weird dystopian estates.
Have a look at the complete set of Thamesmead at :
A day walk through Thamesmead Housing estate in Southeast London
Lake Lenore had some excess sodium dumped in it in 1947
check out the video on youtube here
and then someone is stealing fish most recently.
I like this place I wish people would leave only footprints....
On the way back from our last visit to the Scablands we stopped at the little town of Liberty. Here we chatted with a local who told us of how close last years wildfire got, very close, he was supposed to evacuate but wouldn't have no matter what.
We met a box of rescued cats who were only a few weeks old and should have had their mother. One was dead in the box with front paws in clawing formation and mouth open in a scream expression. It was surreal by this point. People still looking for gold in these hills.
more photos of Liberty:This Life in Ruins
Liberty, Wa
