Tung Ping Chau is full of deserted and dilapidated buildings.
Trees and plants never lose time. If human beings have no further use of them, they shall be most happy to take our place.
The walls are all overgrown with creepers
To prevent total collapse, the side walls are propped up by wooden beams.
Trees and plants never lose time. If human beings have no further use of them, they shall be most happy to take our place.
The walls are all overgrown with creepers
To prevent total collapse, the side walls are propped up by wooden beams.
To provent the interior from being flooded by rain and cause damps and rot, the windows are hoarded up
Some of the deserted houses are used as rubbish dumps
The paints have peeled off and the windows are barred up
They'd use anything for sealing off the windows, slabs of sandstone and boards.
the original balustrades have broken down
Creepers make use of the wall and the window as support for their leaves.
You find creepers everywhere, on the walls, on the roofs
Trees also take advantage of the walls for support
It is obvious that rocks found on the island were used for building
Through the former window, we get a glimpse of how nature has completely colonized what man has left behind
Plants would take every opportunity to grow upon the debris and every available crack of abandoned houses
details of the broken down wall
Windows surrounded by plants and creepers
This house has lost even its door
Creepers climb up any strings dangling from the sealed window
light passing through the window of a deserted building
Another window overgrown by creepers
Torn cloths in front of a dislocated iron gate
A stone placed on the ledge to hold the iron mesh in place
plastic pipes for sale at $10/piece?
The shade over the terrace of a seaside store where I had a drink while waiting for the ferry for returning to Ma Liu Shui
patterns on the shade
A rope presumably for hanging clothes to dry under the sun?
A knot to hold the canvas of the "shade". Must everything ultimately be tied to the ground before it becomes secure?
Some of the deserted houses are used as rubbish dumps
The paints have peeled off and the windows are barred up
They'd use anything for sealing off the windows, slabs of sandstone and boards.
the original balustrades have broken down
Creepers make use of the wall and the window as support for their leaves.
You find creepers everywhere, on the walls, on the roofs
Trees also take advantage of the walls for support
It is obvious that rocks found on the island were used for building
Through the former window, we get a glimpse of how nature has completely colonized what man has left behind
Plants would take every opportunity to grow upon the debris and every available crack of abandoned houses
details of the broken down wall
Windows surrounded by plants and creepers
This house has lost even its door
Creepers climb up any strings dangling from the sealed window
light passing through the window of a deserted building
Another window overgrown by creepers
Torn cloths in front of a dislocated iron gate
A stone placed on the ledge to hold the iron mesh in place
plastic pipes for sale at $10/piece?
The shade over the terrace of a seaside store where I had a drink while waiting for the ferry for returning to Ma Liu Shui
patterns on the shade
A rope presumably for hanging clothes to dry under the sun?
A knot to hold the canvas of the "shade". Must everything ultimately be tied to the ground before it becomes secure?
Things in so poor condition still have a kind of beauty that is beyond words (my words). No one is able to live there except street-sleeper/homeless persons. But the place is not in the urban area I suppose. It is really beautiful and worth a visit. Your artistic pictures do bring out the raw power of nature.
回覆刪除[版主回覆08/31/2012 13:45:42]There is certainly more contrast in the play of light upon the folds of the wrinkles around their forehead, their eyes, their cheeks, even their arms and legs and old folk's freckles: they are living traces of "experience", a kind of frozen "history.
[百了回覆08/31/2012 13:33:34]That's why some painter prefer to paint elders. There is a kind of beauty in their wrinkles.
[版主回覆08/31/2012 08:34:57]There is more than one kind of beauty. There can be a beauty of desolation too, or a certain beauty in chaotic abundance of life or as you say, a beauty of "the raw power of nature".
似乎有點荒涼、但又能給予人一種寧靜感覺....
回覆刪除[版主回覆08/31/2012 15:12:59]Very few people on the island now !
也是很喜歡在頹垣敗瓦中留連、 它們彷彿訴說著無數的故事！
回覆刪除[版主回覆09/06/2012 06:55:30]Each broken down house is a story of its own !