MOSS AND BONE FACTORY / GERMANY
this abandoned factory is located in the north of hamburg and probpybly might have produced something like ytong...because it lies next to a big hole in the ground wich used to be a place to get the "goods" (sand ,chalk ???)...now the hole is a lake and it's surroundings are overgrown with bushes and small trees again..anyway, this building is in the middle of a still used areal, wich looks like a deposit place for construction companies, but the fence is very low. and the wooden fence wich should protect the place from getting invaded was also a joke, lookes like someone has been there before..no wonder as the lake is a pretty popular place to hang out in the summer..in the yard of the building was a tiny fenced in forest and a lot of signs wich told us how very prohibited it is to enter..and in a very well vetilatedbut still stinking long hallway with liquid on the ground we realized that the place has been used as a shed for goats or sheeps recently, the shiny and very tasty (to dogs at least) stuff on the floor must have been piss or a mixture of first mentioned with other excrements, because in the end of the yard was a huge heap of shit and straw, too. next to it was a tightly fenced up cellar window...(wich is, by the way still a thing of interest to me.) and finally inside the more closed structure there have been some printouts taped to the doors and walls, saying something like: " a pupil has informed us, to make a stop to your acts of destruction. we have trustfully given along this information to others. you should rather get a job, to pay your debts. your parents will surly be very happy about it. just an information." but as we couldn't be the ones they were ranting about we went on, through smaller parts of equipment rooms with empty racks to the main hall wich was devided by an improvised fence for the animals who were "stored" in this shelter. we saw what was propably meant by "destructive acts" in the posters, some really ugly graffities, wich suited the walls at least in their colours... behind the wooden fence has been an other one made of metal wich actually belongs to the original structure and behind that were "gruben" ,holes in the floor with a very wet climate, because on this part of the factory there was no roof anymore. so there have been neat puddles of very clear water with a lot of debris in it. and finally in the more flooded parts of the underground level there was a room wich reminded me of the "hope room" in stalker somehow, but sadly i hadn't a tripod with me to take a prober picture, so this is (all) quite blurry...(sorry for that, but who said that exploring it is about photography anyway?) the drowned showel in the water shows us the first sight of the structure above, wich is luckily flooded with light rather than water...but before i followed my partner up again i was curious about the even darker cellar rooms, but the floors were flooded so it was not so easy to go inthere without getting wet (and perhaps intoxicated?) feet, so i didn't went up through the lightblue lid, wich lead to an other part of the building. but it looked like still in use when i peeped throught the slightly lifted lid. climbing the slightly damaged metal stairs we reached the second storey with it's huge concrete bases for machines unknown...everything was moss-coverd up there, even the toxic fragments of an broken acid/lead battery block...lots of partly decomposed traces of working and also living (as both have not very much in common these days) creatures could be found inside the wet pillows of moss.hedgehogs and ringed pigeons, one even with a telephone number of an museum in london(?). but not only moss managed to get a grip on the plain concrete, also tiny trees struggled to grow up there, one managed to grow trough a hole in a huge metal plate, wich was really amazing. from this greener part we went up the more and more deconstructed structure, wich consiste basically of rusty metal. one had to be very carefull because there were a lot of loose parts or just plain holes in the floor, it seemed like somekind of sick labyrith with holes intead of walls. somehow m.c.escher-like. the upper level was partly rooless again and consisted nearly wholly of holes in the floor, but one part was made of concrete, but when i turned there in hope for a more secure position, i recordnized the heap of strange stuff on the floor, and when i realized it were thousands of little bones and rings of pigeons it really gave me the creeps...it was a mixture of all kinds of smaller animals up to the size of hedgehogs and rabbits....so this towerlike building was the home of a huge flying predator, with it's hunting terrain in the area around the lake. and when i climbed up the broken roof to take a look into the elevator shaft, filled with garbage (highrise by J.G.Ballard!!), i also had the oppertunity to see the "reich" of the predator in it's foggy beauty. and with the imagination of me beings a flying predator living in this castle of the skyes, i went down again ,nearly forgetting that i am bound to gravity, when i took a look down the shaft wich showed me the structure above when i still was crawling through the cellar...the whole way back to the ground level was filled with the idea of jumping down, even the structure suggested to feel like a jumping tower in a swimming pool..but scatterd remains of to heavy animals brought me back to the "real world" ,full of rails to follow, and narrow spaces to duck into...on the way back out,we found even more rooms wich were basically very boring, but they offered a view in still undiscovered areas of the building through holes in the windows...but we went back to our old home then. maybe another time if this new one is not already lost then.
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