THE SOFA GRAVEYARD 2006
A warehouse building in remote California ghost town of New Idria, California is mysteriously filled with dozens of moldy sofas, stacked on end.

 

INTERIOR IVY 2008
Inside an abandoned building on the perimiter of Castle AFB.

 

EJECT! 2006
'50s fighter pilot seat just sitting in the dirt at Aviation Warehouse
, a Mojave Desert aircraft boneyard that services the film industry as well as recycles aircraft parts.

 

ONE CHAIR 2006
Outside the dead powerhouse at Skaggs Island Naval Base, a top-secret cryptology and surveillance-installation, closed in 1993.

 

LOUNGE LIFE 2007
Inside one of the 50 abandoned houses in the company housing subdivision at Darwin, California.

 

LET'S GO BOWLIN', DUDE 2007
Abandoned bowling alley.

 

TIPPING 2006
Pilots seat hanging out of a cut fuselage at Aviation Warehouse.

 

LOBBY  2008
Inside the abandoned dormitory buildings at Castle AFB. This entire complex is scheduled to be torn down in late 2008.

 

WHEELIE  2007
Inside the derelict Bethlehem Shipyard offices in San Francisco.

 

KITCHEN CHAIR 2008
Outside the long-closed cafe at "Dunmovin", a wide spot on a remote section of California's Highway 395.

 

 

DANGER 2006
Ejection seat sitting in front of a junker C130 at Aviation Warehouse in El Mirage, CA.

 

THE BIG MAN'S CHAIR 2007
The third floor northeast corner office of Bethlehem Shipyard complex, the nicest office in the building. It overlooks the yard and cranes . . . and downtown San Francisco. This was a magnate's office.

 

FREE RANGE SECTIONAL 2006
On the north side of Fort Ord Army Base in Monterey, California is a huge tract of abandoned housing where hundreds of homes stand open to the elements. Salvagers and vandals have dragged everything left inside the buildings into the streets.

 

SEAT MOUNTAIN 2006
A giant pile of hundreds of airliner seats at Aviation Warehouse in El Mirage, California.

 

THE HOT SEAT  2006
Torched lounge chair, lost among the abandoned barracks buildings at Fort Ord. This entire section of the base was razed on 2007 to make way for a mall.

 

BEVERLY HILLBILLIES 2006
50s flatbed truck carrying a rotten sofa at the abandoned junkyard in Hodge, California, Cleaned out on 2007, this junkyard no longer exists.

 

HAVE A SEAT  2006
Building 4900, abandoned at the decommissioned Fort Ord Army Base.

 

INSTITUTIONALIZED  2006
Inside the lobby in one of the abandoned dormitory buildings at Castle AFB. I shot interiors while it rained outside.

 

 

BETWEEN FRAMES   2007
Bowling seats stored in a barracks building of the East Garrison at decommissioned and abandoned Fort Ord. This section of the base was torn down in 2007, the fate of these seats, unknown.

 

STATE TO STATE  2007
Lounging under heavy, moonlit clouds at the abandoned agricultural inspection station on the East side of Yermo, California.

 

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