Slide show: Destruction of the Temple of Consumption

[Google translation] Once they were symbols of growth and prosperity, today many American shopping malls only ruins are left. For artists and amateur archaeologists are the spirits Center exciting playgrounds of morbid beauty. They document the disintegration of the American way of life. By Iris Hellmuth …What he saw when he first entered, took his breath away: inch by inch had decomposed nature of the substance in which they had once soft. Trees had pushed themselves through the floor of linoleum, their tops ripped holes in the roof – a forest in the interior of a dead mall, the interplay of light and shadow painted bizarre patterns on the broken walls. Grass growing out of control, in other mouldering there, because here was no light. Rowell installed his camera, and a little later, the images themselves grow together into a work of art, they held the decomposition in slow motion. “In this dead mall Life is more than in many extant,” says Rowell about his work. “The best Dead Mall in America.” …

Destruction of the Temple of Consumption via Dead Malls