The Pillar

Posted by DAVE ID (Montreal, Canada) on 7 September 2007 in Miscellaneous.

Cote Des Neiges Cemetery Series: Taken on the last day before a special law forcing the caretakers back to work during a union dispute. The whole cemetery has been left without care, not to mention that hundreds of bodies are left in freezers unburied, leaving the city in a crisis. I was also escorted outside the cemetery for taking pictures without a permit. As with everywhere else in Montreal, photography is a crime.

On an artistic level, the abandonment of the grounds leave us with visual treasures.

Looked like a ruin of something bigger, but then I was in the Italian area of the cemetery, where all the extremely ornate, pretentious and opulent graves are, some even reproducing holy sites in Europe, its almost embarrassing to know that people have such feelings of self-importance. But I digress.

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