Our Future Past
by Li Newton
Title
Our Future Past
Artist
Li Newton
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Bodie, California is a town frozen in time, and preserved by California State Parks in a state of “arrested decay.” Bodie became a State Historic Park in 1962, and maintains the buildings just as they were found when the State took over the ghost town – but they do not restore the buildings, instead choosing to simply preserve the buildings in their aged and weathered 1880s appearance.
When the town was finally abandoned, they left everything where it stood; dishes on the table, books on the schoolroon desks.i
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August 28th, 2020
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