The designboom blog write about photographer Christopher Payne’s new book, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals,
a collection of large-format photographs of seventy institutions in thirty US states, shot between 2002 and 2008. massive state-funded mental hospitals, built to warehouse the mentally ill, were a feature of the american landscape for centuries. emptied out in the 1970s and 80s, they now sit abandoned.I liked this comment, from “zenondudasculpture.com”:
While it may be true that many of these institutions now lay empty what is also true is that the restraints of straps and walls is now replaced by drugs.via wintercheck, who said, “I could live in this room.”
this is so creepy and awesome.



