Total Disorder

by Scott Walker

Everything looks a little more faded in the winter. The sun appears a little whiter as opposed to yellow or orange. Leaves from trees are almost a shade of gray painted with touches of brown.

Some think only third world countries live in total filth on mounds of trash... but that would be a mistake to believe such. In fact, most third world countries are far cleaner than this homeless camp located in Middle Tennessee.

"Clean up your camp or leave," the government authorities say without understanding. Who would not give such orders after seeing such a mess? Living in such scattered throw-outs does not make sense. Of course it fails to meet any logical explanation - only because there is not one.

Those with non-imaginable mental illnesses find themselves unable to muster the energy, the know how to search for a place to dump trash, so they live among the debris, the clutter and even the human waste.

"That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or rather, they do, but it's not a kind of sense anyone else can understand." --Audrey Niffenegger, faculty member at Columbia College in Chicago, writer

See more photographs by Scott Walker by visiting his blog, "SmallTownBigWorld.com"