‘Discarded monument’

“Phantom Limb: My Dresser Top at Night’’ (archival pigment print), by Shellburne Thurber, in her show “Shellburne Thurber: Full Circle,’’ at the Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, through March 21.

The museum says the show focuses on “interior work that is private, domestic, psychological, or insular. While not explicitly ‘spooky,’ Thurber's atmospheric photographs of abandoned, derelict and, inversely, intensely lived-in spaces are still haunting in that they call upon memories of lives once lived in the scenes she captures. According to curatorial material, ‘each photograph invites us into a discarded monument for everyday lives carried out in the passage of time at these exact sites: secrets, emotions, and interactions by anonymous people or known intimately to the artist."