Scratched Element
@scratchedelement
🟡⚪🟣⚫ 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 Uncovering the buried truths that we hoped to forget The gnawing and clawing in the back of your mind Don't be afraid. We can look together. 📷Original photography daily 📍 Grand Rapids, MI 🚫Never AI
📷📸 IT IS HERE WHERE THE LINES COME TO A POINT THE SIGNALS CONVERGE OVER A CENTURY OF VOICES OVERLAP AND IT ALL ASSEMBLES INTO A BEAUTIFUL CHORUS IT'S SUCH A SHAME THAT YOU ARE DEAF TO IT #photography #art
📷📸 The first night alone Unsupervised No one to stop you From exploring the places unseen Lifting the fog of war And talking to the kind looking man across the way #photography #liminalspace #nightphotography
Once this tree falls, let's count the rings to find its age. It might be older than you think. Much older.
📷📸 If you listen closely, you can hear it. The sound of a great creature's death rattle. Crackling lights and creaking girders. Every intruder like you and me accelerates it just a little bit. #photography #art #liminalspace #backrooms #michigan #urbex #abandoned
📷📸 An invisible wall is keeping us here Psychically bound by overwhelming transmissions You may pass through to the other side freely But when you get your freedom Only isolation is waiting A barren landscape abandoned a long time ago #photography #art #powerlines #surrealism #dreamcore
But you're still there I can hear your voice echoing off the walls But instead of you calling my name I hear laughter Celebration, excitement, a full house Good for you
Some days it feels like I get nothing done Play silly games Hope time stops Let the drugs do their magic Wait for the next ₛᵤₙᵣᵢₛₑ drown out the noise with something louder Let the rain wash it away Stay out of the sun ⚫ tread water and believe that someone will dive in to save me 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗡𝗢𝗧
📷📸 Just a few minutes alone Just one smoke Just a few more hours of this Before the house is quiet again #photography #nightphotography #midwest
📷📸 HERE I CAN CREATE THE PERFECT WORLD INSIDE THE EGG ETERNAL WOMB OUTSIDE COMMOTIONS ONLY DISTANT THUNDER AS CRACKS FORM I PATCH THEM UP AS RUMBLE TURNS TO BOOM TURNS TO SKULL SHAKING STRIKE I PLUG MY EARS AND WAIT FOR THE STORMS TO PASS #photography #art #surrealism #powerlines #poetry
📷📸 The first breath after holding it for your entire life, How does it feel? Like a give from heaven? What if I told you this is how people feel all the time? I hope your second is just as divine. #photography #art #nightphotography #liminalspace #rustbelt #michigan
📷📸 Eyes in darkness starved of light only dilate and grow hungrier. They turn inward and cannibalize the mind, producing mirages and fantasies to feed their lust for input. Silence turns to symphony. #photography #art #liminalspace #nightphotography #midwest #rustbelt #michigan
And as the image was filtered through the filth you saw me as I stand before you now And the time has come to wipe it clean and see the truth I told you everything will be okay Do you still believe me?
📷📸 Do you still believe me? Everyone else has moved on But you saw something in me Because we share the same eyes You saw what no one else could You saw yourself Reflected back Through a dirty mirror #photography #art #liminalspace #nightphotography #surrealism
📷📸 Looks like we missed our boat. It'll be some time before another comes by again. Seems like we'll be stuck with each other for a while. Let's start with introductions. I'm sure you already know my name. #photography #art
Maybe it's not the world that's unrecognizable, but myself. More and more every day.
📷📸 Is it possible for old to truly be new again? Where when I turn the corner it's a new hall every time with doors that lead to unknown places? World turned inside out and upside down populated by faces turned uncanny, friends to strangers. #photography #art #surrealism #minimalism #powerlines
Isn't it fantastic to be on the front edge of the world while it's on a collision course? I can almost see the iceberg now.
📷📸 Panic and chaos fuels our world now. It burns a strange new color. A fire too hot and selfish to contain, so we don't. All oxygen will deplete one day. Watch the ticker prices climb, isn't it a thrill? #photography #art #powerlines #surrealism
📷📸 We've managed to escape its orbit for now But for how long until it drags us closer again That black star The inevitable Infinitely patient Always hungry Unthinkable destination If I hold you tightly enough I can keep myself from getting sucked in For just a little while longer #photography #art
📷📸 Alone with your thoughts. Caustic viscous thoughts. Thoughts of new murals painted on old brick wall. Burning thoughts of when it will all turn cold. Thoughts you notice are getting smaller every time you recall them. Thoughts you can tell no one. There's one thought above them all. #photography
📷📸 Cracking parking lots, grounded airports, failed businesses, forgotten back roads. After all of my searching, none these things are as empty as the place where our conversations were supposed to go. The heartbreak lingers. The lights flicker. The search continues. #photography #liminalspace
📷📸 "AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN GOLIATH AROSE, AND DREW NIGH TO MEET DAVID, THAT DAVID HASTENED, AND RAN TOWARD THE ARMY TO MEET GOLIATH. AND DAVID PUT HIS HAND IN HIS BAG, AND TOOK THENCE A STONE, AND SLANG IT, AND SMOTE GOLIATH IN HIS FOREHEAD; AND HE FELL UPON HIS FACE TO THE EARTH" #photography
📷📸 Can you feel the rumble? Keep your eyes and ears open, because something is barreling down the tracks faster than we've ever seen before. And it's much too late for any of us to do anything to stop it. #photography #art
📷📸 After a lifetime of prayer God finally fixed his gaze upon me I asked him why things are as they are He did not answer I asked him why people do what they do He did not answer I asked him why I am the way that I am He did not answer #photography #art #nightphotography #liminalspace #michigan
Impossible. It can't be. A new print in my store available for purchase? It's true! Let the cold in and embrace the big freeze. scratchedelement.darkroom.com/products/1866654 Don't let your wall go uncovered. ❄️ #photography #art #liminalspace #nightphotography
📷📸 RUN RUN RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN #streetphotography #nightphotography #photography #art #liminalspace
📷📸 The decision to traverse the dark forest that encircled you was not an easy one to make, but it was the only one that will one day lead to a vast open clearing. Your will is strong, and eventually you will see the sun again. And I will be there to bask in it with you. #photography #liminalspace
📷📸 It will take more than words to speak my language #photography #art #powerlines #surrealism #dreamcore #art
📷📸 There rules a king from his tower Where he pays his admirers by the hour When his chambers shake And the porcelain breaks It will take years for him to fall down #photography #art #poetry #infrastructure
Put on a pretty face and smile While your insides churn and tumble And we'll see how long your disguise lasts Before the cracks start to appear And I can finally work my way inside