Painting ruin, painting water

[daphneblithe]

I just painted an A3 canvas of a flooded ruin from this:

for this: Love Among the Ruins (Stucky fic, historical accuracy, eerie psychiatry, Siberian angst).

The photographs in this book are AMAZING. She's an urbex photographer, roamed ex-Soviet regions and photographed ruined interiors. More of her work is here.

Comments

[winterraven]

Wow. The images are gorgeous! I love abandoned buildings and the way they deteriorate from neglect and disuse. If those buildings could speak, the stories they could tell. I think I'm going to pick up the book. That's my kind of aesthetic.

[daphneblithe]

I recommend it so much! it's HAUNTING, honestly, and some of the images really seize your imagination!