There is much to be gained and learned from this city. I don't refer only the financial and social? breakdown of Detroit, actually, I mean, from an artist's perspective; from the creative human perspective. Photos, prose, short, noisy gritty film. Sketches of the stick figures trudging through concrete sticks, logs, and bridges. A failure of America; mistake, take and leave exhibited in a most raw, organic form.
Detroit is beautiful, it is honest and blunt.
The city is damaged, broken. Yet, there remains a haunting, uplifting effect on the psyche.
What we may become
What once was
What most wish to turn away from
Or stare at with disgust and gratitude for being 'better off'.
A city with a pull that does not know resistance; or so it seems.
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