This gorgeously giant book's cover grabs you and demands attention. David Maisel photographed almost 110 canisters. Some are copper in color, some have green, gold, white, red, or orange, depending on their stage of decay. Each holds the human remains of a former patient of the Oregon State Hospital. This Library of Dust vaguely reflects the spectrum of asylum patients who are gone but not forgotten.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Crazy Beautiful
This gorgeously giant book's cover grabs you and demands attention. David Maisel photographed almost 110 canisters. Some are copper in color, some have green, gold, white, red, or orange, depending on their stage of decay. Each holds the human remains of a former patient of the Oregon State Hospital. This Library of Dust vaguely reflects the spectrum of asylum patients who are gone but not forgotten.
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