Category Archives: Architectural

School’s Out

By gkessel51 | Published December 21, 2011

Timeline

Thinking about how happy it was to be a kid this time of year, with Christmas arriving and school being out and I ran across this old 35mm film image I shot years ago. It made wonder how long this school had been “out” and were all the kids celebrating Christmas with their kids and grand kids by now.

I call it Timeline because it reminds me of time marching across the wall as the weather and nature in general has slowly moved into the room. It looks as if the vines are reaching in to see if they can grab a piece of that broken chalkboard. All the chalkboards in this school were frosted glass painted black on the back and were obviously favorite targets of vandals. Maybe some folks got in and broke the chalkboard to get even for earlier “homework” assignments they had issues with.

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Day 1

By gkessel51 | Published November 30, 2011

I have been sort of wandering in my interest and efforts lately.  I need to focus and I am thinking that making myself sit down at this blog everyday may help that.  I have no idea at this point what shape it will take and can only imagine the variety of posts that will show up.  If you intend to follow it, please have patience as I evolve, since writing is typically a painful process for me.  It will feel like I am working in the boiler room at Sears Crosstown which I was lucky enough to shoot recently. (shown below, more to come)

You can view more of my commissioned architectural work by clicking HERE and other more recent work on request.

I have also posted a photo of my “review committee” who is keeping their eyes on me …….. specially that creepy guy second from left.

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