At once a poignant portrait of his hometown and an expression of Kelley's characteristic investigation of potential childhood trauma, the composition intriguingly juxtaposes the clean modern lines of the mobile house in the foreground with the classical columns, aging stonework, and broken
windows of the abandoned buildings in the background.
Not exact matches
Saturday afternoon around 1:30, armed only with a street number and a general idea
of the
building's whereabouts, I drive past twice, first overlooking it then saying, «Nah, that can't be it,» but, maybe, that tiny little box over there, over near the river and nothing else except some
abandoned warehouses with shattered
windows and a few wind - whipped scrub pines, that rundown shack over there with the rutted dirt parking area and the fish market behind it, maybe that's the gym.
Under the shadow
of the West Virginia hills on the Ohio side
of the river lies Steubenville, a hodge - podge
of solidly
built, well - maintained churches and other
buildings; burnt - out brick husks with gaping holes where
windows and doors once were; sagging single - family houses and tired public housing projects; warehouses;
abandoned businesses; and trash - strewn empty lots — all crammed together in one compact area.
There were children running and playing along the highway in their bare feet; locals bicycling through the village; thin and sad - looking dogs roaming around and laying in the middle
of the road; lots
of garbage and litter scattered along the side
of the road;
abandoned buildings with jungle growth creeping inside them and graffiti on the exterior; open - air handicraft markets selling typical Mexican souvenirs and blankets in a variety
of vibrant colours; empty bus stops covered in graffiti; small, open - air and simple restaurants with red Coca Cola signs on the exterior, and matching tables and chairs serving authentic cuisine; locals cooking and serving fresh meat on a barbeque along the road; a small park and square; narrow gravel roads stemming off
of the highway to the remainder
of the village; and tiny one - room houses with either thatched roofs and wooden panels on the sides or square white painted houses with a flat roof, barred
windows and always a satellite dish on top.
On the way in, Dave McKenzie's video, Nefertiti, moves slowly between the
windowed rooms
of an
abandoned building and a Berlin museum, as if spying on the ruins
of western civilization.
Having witnessed personal belongings
of Rockaway residents being destroyed and washed away during Sandy, Smith will install a gilded four - post bed with pure white linens in a long -
abandoned building that lacks
windows and parts
of its roof.
This new approach for
Windows, which Microsoft itself calls
Windows as a Service, means that while new versions
of Windows 10 are released, the oldest are being
abandoned, so users need to always upgrade to the latest
builds as they are released.
Out
of the living room
window, the house featured a predominant and fulsome view
of the long -
abandoned Woody Meadows Porridge Factory, or what was left
of the crumbling frame
of the
building.