{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"A Brief But Spectacular take on rural America's vanishing structures","publication_date":"March 31, 2024","summary":"For more than two decades, Vermont-based photographer Jim Westphalen has documented old farmhouses, barns, churches and homes that have fallen into disrepair -- he calls it \"finding beauty in decay.\" His works are collected in a book and film, both titled \"Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural America.\" Westphalen shares his Brief But Spectacular take on the vanishing structures of rural America.","author_name":"By Katie Hodgman, Second Peninsula LLC, Ana Davila","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2024\/03\/e0ec433a5cf682c2e73ab1b4bb60db1c-BBS-1-1024x576.png","thumbnail_height":576,"thumbnail_width":1024}