Print & Installation: Den

I found this dollhouse at a local estate sale, and thought it would look much better in the woods. I photographed it and left it in a location that is just barely visible from the road next to the forest preserve. I'm hoping people will get a glance of it from their car and wonder if they really did see a creepy dollhouse in the forest. For the photograph I used my Mamiya C330 with a 105mm lens, as usual. With the exception of the leaf that got blown out in the bottom right window, I'm pleased with this print.

Thanks for looking!

Print: Home

Along the side a winding mid-western highway was a single house, guarded by a sea of weeds. Sunken and defeated, it sat in the cold. Windows shattered, awnings collapsed, paint peeling. A certain presence radiated from its darkened doorways. Something watching and waiting, lurking in the shadows, was hoping I would step inside.

But I didn't. Hell no. Not alone, at least. I mean, look at this house!

I made this print in my darkroom using my new Omega D4 enlarger. It's a pretty epic piece of equipment. To make the negative, I used my Mamiya C330 with a 105mm lens.

Roll: Home

Yesterday Katie and I made the three and a half hour trek to Galesburg, our college town. I brought along my Kodak Retina iiic and my Mamiya C330. We went a different way than we usually do, and somewhere near Dekalb we came across a decrepit yellow house that was for sale on the side the highway. I had to take some photos of it. "Don't bring any ghosts back with you," Katie said as I got out of the car. The house did have a presence to it; I half excepted to see the silhouette of a figure moving around through one of the broken windows. I walked around the perimeter of the house with my iiic, taking a few photos. I then set up my tripod and took some shots with my C330. I'll hopefully get around to developing that roll and making some prints once I get home. Here are the shots I took with the Retina. I apologize for the resolution... Hi-Vee didn't do the greatest job with making my photo CD.

Spooky. Somehow I managed to escape without being possessed... I think. I just wish I could have gone inside. Maybe next time.