A photographer and an architect plan to freeze one Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes this winter, encasing it in ice to draw attention to foreclosures that have battered the region.
A photographer and an architect plan to freeze one Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes this winter, encasing it in ice to draw attention to foreclosures that have battered the region. AP
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you can find plenty of frozen abandoned houses in detroit for 3 months every year...i also have a problem with addressing decay with more decay...if you want to come to detroit and draw attention, do something positive...
if the point is to draw attention to effects of foreclosures in a region, freeze a mcmansion in florida, california, or nevada (top 3 foreclosure states - MI is 8th)
less art; more solutions!
This art seems weak b/c the concept can be misinterpreted in so many ways. Waste of water, resources and energy for poor symbolism and metaphor. We are not living in 1973 anymore, nor are we looking for the new Matta-Clark.
While the photographer is from a Detroit suburb, the architect is from Brooklyn. To boot, they are basically copying the idea from a series of projects executed by the Detroit Collaborative Design Center. I would not donate to this cause..
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