LAUREN OLINGER

Inspired Photography

(336) 422-7407

35mm- multiple exposures

  

[Winston-Salem, NC]

image one: there's a yellow iron staircase that spirals underneath the lap pool.. it winds down to a cavern of sorts.  really, its just an observation room but it's been long abandoned.  no joke, there are stalagmites growing on the concrete from years of some small but constant drip, drip. 

the Reynolds family, as in JR Reynolds tobacco, once owned all that is now Wake Forest University.  they would summer at the Reynolda House.. a mansion that was supported by a small village especially designed to cushion the family's extravagant lifestyle.  what is now Reynolda Presbyterian Church was origninally built as Katherine Reynolds chapel.

image two: my roommate Mary Kate Lewis-- she's all legs couldn't be further from the truth.