From the Start

This blog is dedicated to a project about grave yards and the meanings they hold. Although I am very interested in this project, its not my own. Jeff Howe, my natures studies teacher at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Designed has been researching, studying and writing about three specific graves yard in and round the Lancaster area. After he shared about his project in class, I asked about tagging alone with him and photographing some of the graves. I am intrigued but still ignorant about the history that encompasses Jeff Howl's grave yard project.
The grave yards are about evidence of the landscapes from the past. The building, personal properties, roads and signs have been removed and rewritten. Only the graves yards remain. The Millersville Reformed Mennonite grave yard (where the holga images were taken), is presently in the middle of a corn field. I am told that in the summer it is completely hidden from view as the crops grow. The community the grave yard once served and now holds, is gone, nearly without a trace, except for the the graves surrounded by a barely standing brick wall.
The small patch of land, that makes up a grave yard, is respected, untouched, hallowed. At least we hope.

Stones . February 2008 . © Jona Care

Broken Walls . February 2008 © Jona Care