Just because it's not useful...
- Feb 1
- 1 min read
...doesn't mean it's not beautiful!
While visiting the Isle of Lewis and Harris in Scotland, we explored abandoned homes and structures—places long past their usefulness. I’m drawn to spaces like these not just for the stories they hint at, but for their quiet, unexpected beauty.
I don’t imagine many people hanging a photograph of a rusted paint can on their wall… although maybe you would. Look at the colors. The textures. The layers of time. Someone once opened that can, chose a color, and painted a wall. Which wall was it? When did that happen—and why that color? And at what point did they leave, closing the door for the last time, unaware that decades later someone would stand there, camera in hand, wondering about them?
These places may be abandoned, but they’re not empty. They’re filled with traces of everyday lives—ordinary moments slowly reclaimed by time.
These images always invoke thought and questions of who and why, nice work
Judy - thank you. The passage of time and the link to our viewing of theirs is wonderfully captured. I often wonder what the original residents might think to see these. And I wonder what I might think of images from my youth.