Lost & Shared: What I’m looking at this week #001
The curiosities, long reads, images and think pieces I’ve enjoyed this week
Welcome to the first of a series called Lost & Shared. These are the pieces that caught my eye this week betwixt the haze and murk of the online world.
I’m sharing them here in case they are of interest to any like-minded souls. Anyone who is attracted to the esoteric, the beautiful and the absurd.
Glass people, rotting cars, psychedelic burger chefs…
Broad subject matters - exploration, the creative arts, oddities - but all curiosities.
Enjoy and please do share anything you’ve come across recently that you found interesting. Here are this week’s finds:
The Citroën Graveyard of Middle England
A delicious Angkor Wat of rusted cars hidden somewhere in the Midlands. I’d love to take a trip here someday, if I can figure out the secret location. In the meantime, while I scour Google Maps in Satellite view, Janine has taken some wonderful shots for us to enjoy.
The People Who Believed they Were Made of Glass and Might Shatter
“The men came from the Netherlands, from France, from Spain - documented in medical literature across four centuries, each arriving with a precise and terrible self-diagnosis.” This is a wonderful long read by Tamara Sanderson, Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Saving the Psychedelic McDonald’s Mural
Such a wonderfully eerie, unintentionally dystopian image. Ronald McDonald milking a cow while being gazed at, lovingly, by what looks like a pirate, the Cookie Monster, a huge cow pat and a selection of walking hair pieces. Cabel’s story follows the imminent demise of a strange artwork in a Centralia and his mission to save it. Fantastic photographs by Aaron Lee too.
Maxim-Zetkin-Pflegeheim: The Abandoned Home for the ‘Mentally Afflicted’
Pflegeheim Saalow was a home for the elderly, infirm and the mentally afflicted but has now been abandoned and left to ruin. “It had its own graveyard, and a pulley under the now-abandoned church so the corpses could be lowered underneath.” There are haunting descriptions and very moving pictures in this piece.
To round us off an image from the photography archive. Some street tiling I admired:
‘The Mosaic’
That’s it for now.
I hope you found these as interesting and illuminating as I did.
Please do share your own thoughts and discoveries in the comments.
Thank you! Some fascinating stuff here. Just subscribed to The Public Domain Review. What a treasure.