Virginia's Northern Neck
I went back to King George
and other counties to the south and east. I had to. I looked at the maps and
KNEW, I could feeeeeeeel it.
Below are some of the images from Virginia's Northern Neck as of March, 2005.
The images were taken from one abandoned elementary school as well as several
abandoned houses. These places I consider almost sacred, indeed they are. They
are the unburied remains of lives. They are amazing open caskets.
This trip was particularly affecting. You simply cannot stand in these rooms and not hear the voices, and feeeel the intense heaviness of the lives that had to abandon these rooms, sometimes with such obvious haste clothes were left hanging where they were last placed, the comforter remains crumpled at the foot of the bed.
I consider it a high privilege I am led to these places, and am presented with the honor of capturing them in their final days.
I enter them with the reverence
and respect they deserve.
Copyright © 2005, William P. Brown, III
