I'm fascinated by the recent surge of interest in documenting the demise of Detroit. It's not new but it seems to be gaining attention now. It saddens and sickens me to see the crumbling of so many beautiful works of architecture and disheartens me to know how many people wish they could help and don't have the means to do so. I was especially struck by a few of the images in Andrew Moore's Detroit Disassembled: there's a tree growing out of decayed Detroit Public School books on pages 36-37, and there's a deceased cat curled on a chair next to books in the defunct Mark Twain branch of the Detroit Public Library. Memorable? Yes. Shameful? Yes.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Decaying Beauty
I'm fascinated by the recent surge of interest in documenting the demise of Detroit. It's not new but it seems to be gaining attention now. It saddens and sickens me to see the crumbling of so many beautiful works of architecture and disheartens me to know how many people wish they could help and don't have the means to do so. I was especially struck by a few of the images in Andrew Moore's Detroit Disassembled: there's a tree growing out of decayed Detroit Public School books on pages 36-37, and there's a deceased cat curled on a chair next to books in the defunct Mark Twain branch of the Detroit Public Library. Memorable? Yes. Shameful? Yes.
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