“A room full of souls no one wanted”
by Vlad on 19/08/2008I stumbled upon an essay discussing a book I found very moving, Library of Dust. In it are a large collection of photographs of what seem like beautifully decaying canisters from the Oregon state psychiatric institution, now a place for violent criminals.
“At the end of winter 2005, David Maisel traveled to a small city in Oregon. There were bridges, plazas, and gates. He was there to locate an old psychiatric hospital – a building now housing violent criminals – because the hospital held something that interested him.
Upon arrival, he met with the head of security, who already knew why Maisel had come. The two of them walked down a nearby corridor, where Maisel was shown what he’d been looking for. It was an isolated room behind a locked door – smaller, less official, than expected.
Within it was the Library of Dust.”
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