The above photo is part of a series by fine art photographer Edward M. Fielding and is available as a fine art print. Note: The watermark in the lower right does not appear in the final print or product.
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What do you make of an empty chair all alone in an abandoned house in the middle of remote Montana?
Who was sitting there last? Who would sit there alone in this empty decaying house? What happened to all of the other belongings and furniture? Why was this chair left behind?
It seems like a perfectly good chair. In so much better shape than the weathered, decaying walls of the room with peeling paint and initials scratched into the wallpaper.
An empty chair often has meaning for the death of a loved one. Someone who used to claim the chair at the head of the dinner table or came each year for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
But in a ghost town in the gold hills of Montana, the entire town represents past lives now gone. Scattered when the gold flakes dried up, the floods came and the inhabits move on to new ventures.