This project is so amazing and fascinating. Here's a write up:
"In 1995, the New York State Museum was moving items out of the Willard
Psychiatric Center in Willard, NY which was being closed by the State
Office of Mental Health. It would eventually become a state-run drug
rehabilitation center. Craig Williams and his staff became aware of an
attic full of suitcases in the pathology lab building. The cases were
put into storage when their owners were admitted to Willard sometime
between 1910 and the 1960s. And since the facility was set up to help
people with chronic mental illness, these folks never left. An exhibit
of a small selection of the cases was produced by the Museum and was on
display in Albany in 2003. It was very moving to read the stories of
these people, and to see objects from their lives before they became
residents of Willard." Jon Crispin. {View the accompanying video!}
Jon Crispin painstakingly unwraps each carefully bound suitcase and photographs the contents, documenting the process as he goes. Here are a few of the images taken by Jon Crispin for the series. See more images here and here.
(Link via Foxtail + Fern)
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Willard Asylum Suitcases
Published by Sarah Sovereign at 6:47 PM
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Thank you for posting this! it was incredible... I looked at every one.
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