Houses Gone Wild: Haunting Photos of Abandoned Homes


	Houses Gone Wild: Haunting Photos of Abandoned Homes

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9-29-2009 9:21 AM

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9-29-2009 8:50 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c25b20e2-42ba-4410-83ea-53bf5e0201f0/B3D858F4-8D93-486D-8592-A4E17E547C92/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dornob.com/houses-gone-wild-haunting-photos-of-abandoned-homes/" href="http://dornob.com/houses-gone-wild-haunting-photos-of-abandoned-homes/" style="font-size: 11px;">dornob.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dornob.com/houses-gone-wild-haunting-photos-of-abandoned-homes/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dornob.com/img/0AE6E087-3FC6-45D2-92DA-17B4A2DE9225" alt="abandoned deserted home" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dornob.com/houses-gone-wild-haunting-photos-of-abandoned-homes/"><P>We think of feral dogs as dangerous, foreboding and to-be-avoid – but wild houses have a strange allure despite (or likely because) they are abandoned abodes, deserted homes gone from domestic spaces slowly back to nature. As photographer <A href="http://www.jamesgriffioen.net/">James D Griffioen</A> muses, the Latin root refers both to while beasts but also to something that belongs to the dead, gone back to the Earth.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dornob.com/houses-gone-wild-haunting-photos-of-abandoned-homes/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dornob.com/img/C70A0104-85E2-4C34-9E98-0BDC4A1F7475" alt="abandoned houses" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dornob.com/houses-gone-wild-haunting-photos-of-abandoned-homes/"><P>Some of his shots capture this process at an incredibly late stage, such as the house above which is entirely camouflaged by the greenery that has grown to cover it – only discernible because the branches and vines conform to the shape of the structure.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dornob.com/houses-gone-wild-haunting-photos-of-abandoned-homes/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dornob.com/img/AD3FB208-6818-4400-B275-424300F9A06C" alt="abandoned house" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dornob.com/houses-gone-wild-haunting-photos-of-abandoned-homes/"><P>Others photos catch the domestic devolution at intermediate stages, snapshots of partial overgrowth where there is still some strange balance of building and nature – one could almost imagine someone still occupying this structure and simply never leaving it.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dornob.com/houses-gone-wild-haunting-photos-of-abandoned-homes/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dornob.com/img/391FD7C1-A0E6-426E-9786-A9CB27A9AE00" alt="abandonments" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dornob.com/houses-gone-wild-haunting-photos-of-abandoned-homes/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dornob.com/img/BE9888C2-06B0-4C4B-9264-40C609FCC424" alt="abandoned haunting houses" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B3D858F4-8D93-486D-8592-A4E17E547C92/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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