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High school ruins · 20 November 2009
The other day I passed this demolition scene at the corner of Clyde and Baseline in Ottawa. It’s the old Laurentian high school being torn down to make way for a shopping mall. There was something poignant about the cafeteria mural exposed to harsh daylight that I couldn’t resist returning the next morning to photograph. It peeked out like a hidden tattoo, a record of pleasure and excruciation. High schools are always fraught places.
This part of the building was rubble, too, when I passed it this morning.
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