It’s election time here in the US, so this image seemed strangely appropriate.

The Empty Room

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A recent photography workshop allowed me access to an old historic house that is in the midst of being renovated. A few rooms were staged for a Halloween haunted house tour — while others (like this one) were simply unused, in the midst of redecoration. It was great to have free reign to open some of those closed doors and poke around places where you felt you probably shouldn’t be. Opening one door I found that someone had used this dusty attic room to dump this large flag out of the way. The emptiness and confined space of the room – without even paint on the walls – gave the space a desolate atmosphere that I really wanted to capture.

No doubt there is any amount of possible symbolism here, but any interpretation you make is entirely your own.

Hope you like it!