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| Tornadoes can completely wipe out a community. I know that now, and I have a new respect for that facet of nature's wrath. |
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| Wal-Mart was leveled flat, and several people perished. |
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| This was an Academy Sporting goods store. I heard there was looting there and some guys were trying to make off with several guns, and someone may (or may not) have been shot by police in the confrontation that ensued. |
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| it was like a bomb hit everywhere you went for miles |
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| A shopping center...cars were tossed about like toys. |
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| As far as you could see the trees were swept away. Only bare trunks stood here and there. |
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| Joplin High School |
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| Joplin High School |
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| The series of arches is a walkway between buildings at the high school...I'm doing a painting with these arches as the subject, similar to the painting And A Stream Runs Through It.....only it'll be called, And A Tornado Runs Through It |
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| Trees were entangled in everything it seemed... where trees aren't suppose to be... |
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| more of the high school |
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| The only thing left standing of the St. Mary's Catholic church was the cross -- like a small miracle. |
2 comments:
Can't believe how total the devastation is. The earthquake recovery in Pakistan a few years ago had a terribly similar feeling of utter helplessness, which can easily swallow you up if you don't concentrate on one small task at a time. Huge respect for you!
Tim (Hellebore75)
Gus,
Thank you for sharing these haunting pictures,
AND for your selfless help to the people of Joplin. I read the Yahoo Sports Trailer about the lone Track & Field Athlete who qualified for the State Finals, and wasn't going to go, but everyone told her to, and the reaction of the crowd in support of her when they say her school name/colors.
One or two of your charcoal studies evoke some of this feeling, but they were just desolation, not complete and utter wanton destruction, as this is. I'm sure any pieces you do based on these images, and your memories of the sights, sounds, smells, feelings, will be extremely evocative.
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