Living Room deep layers of peeling paint recording

layers of peeling paint recording decades of disuse

their surfaces layered in graffiti accumulated across decades of abandonment

and a brick chimney rises on the left against a press of old-growth trees behind

sits empty

Living Room deep layers of peeling paint recordingDust laden furniture and peeling wallpaper in a company house at Nichitsu's Ogurawa settlement, photographed in 2016. The residential area was built by the mine operator to house workers and their families at full capacity in the 1960s, and emptied as metal extraction wound down. The last permanent resident left in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.