Unquiet Underground

Project Statement

Deep beneath the University of Massachusetts Boston Campus lies a quiet, hidden, and strangely alive abandoned garage. In Unquiet Underground, forgotten corridors, machinery, pipes, and chambers become landscapes of mystery, where light, shadow, and time transform functional spaces into places of wonder.

These photographs are an exploration of what exists below the surface: the unseen structures that support our lives and the imaginative worlds they evoke. Graffiti creatures, abandoned passages, and silent architecture suggest a realm suspended between memory and myth, where absence itself becomes a presence.

Although this garage had been closed due to safety reasons for at least a decade, while I was employed as a Learning Design Consultant at UMass Boston, I spent many happy hours sneaking into and wandering around this dusty, creepy space. I loved the urban decay, the “old” and unusual things I saw, and the interesting geometry created by the pillars and pipes.

This series of six images was published as a set in the Watermark Journal, UMass Boston’s literary magazine.