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Left:Porthole, as used in the Danvers Hospital history HAUNTED PALACE....... .......Right: The Ruins Beyond the Window
| Mike Turcotte is better known as "dijital" to his fellow-sojourners in the realm of urban spelunking and is one of the Danvers Asylum's most intimate explorers. He climbed, crawled and tunneled through the sagging doorways and crumbling tunnels of its interior, struggling to visualize the beautiful, soaring architecture which committed this place to the Registry of Historic Places.He stumbled into, felt, and tasted every inch of this masterpiece as it slowly melted into a rank pile of dust, stone and paint.
Left: Another Window.... Right: Red, Green, Blue\ He tried to ferret out its secret: what had it really been? Why was it abandoned? And how much of its perhaps incipient power still remained?… and he has let the camera document his journey... until the Asylum was no more. Among a spate of films, photo-documentaries, web sites and books focused on the “horrors” of this place, Turcotte’s examination is instead reflective and inquiring, and and presents a much more historical picture of the now-vanished Danvers Asylum in which the human tragedy still echoes. You will find some of these images in Michael Ramseur's history "HAUNTED PALACE".
Left: Contrasts.............Right: Chair Any of the Turcotte photographs may be ordered as a framed or unframed giclee. To order, or to review a more complete collection, click on any of the images above.
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