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Harlem Valley / Wingdale #8239
The buildings at Harlem Valley have been abandoned since it’s closing in 1994. The interiors of many of the buildings in the complex are toxic. The air is filled with mold (from long standing water), and asbestos and lead paint cover the floors.
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I am drawn to the incredibly paradoxical beauty as expressed in the slow transformation from man-made order into the beauty of natural chaos. These photographs were selected from the over 5,000 images taken over 3 years inside, (with permission, and always wearing a HazMat suit) subtracting formalized and often abstract beauty from the chaos inside.
I love the stillness and quiet of the place. All I can hear is my breath through the respirator and HazMat suit I have to wear, much like a diver undersea…. In addition, the lack of my seeing anything living (except an occasional fern or moss trying to eek out an existence) continues the metaphor of a diver visiting a bleached and dying coral reef, once thriving with life, but now lifeless and stark, man being the catalyst to nature’s relentless predisposition to return to chaos.
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| Weight | .5 kg |
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- Store Name: AVERY DANZIGER PHOTOGRAPHY
- Vendor: AVERY DANZIGER PHOTOGRAPHY
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