Ecology of Absence: Hyde Park House

For this weeks EcoAbsence, you get to see the destructive power of neglect from two perspectives: Mine, and my good friend DJ_Silikon.

DJ and I spend a day exploring abandoned places in northern Saint Louis. We first drove to Hyde Park, a quiet, surprisingly safe, yet run down neighborhood.

One thing you’ll note in the pictures is that DJ is using a wheelchair. He has a spinal cord injury. I find the photographic aspect of this very intriguing. In our photographic series, we’re not just documenting the disintegration of someone’s former home. We’re saying something else.

Like in the photo series of the abandoned church, we’re saying something about change, about abandonment of ideas, concepts, lives, and memories. We’re saying something about hope amid pieces of traumatic change. The structure and setting itself is a metaphor.

I don’t want to spell it out for you: go see for yourself.
Hyde Park House