I grew up in Mt. Clemens Michigan. I played music and skated everyday from the time I was 14 until I moved to California in 1991. We skated downtown Detroit and frequented a few abandon buildings to visit our squatter friends and sometimes drove up and down Woodward boulevard looking at hookers and taunting them, besides that, I never really knew much about the place.
I do now. Its in ruins. If this great nation is headed in a downward spiral, its starting here.
These pics are drive by snapshots. It would be way too much to show how many homes and buildings look like these.
I want it to be known that my intent for showing these images is not for art but awareness. every big city has its struggles, there is no doubt in my mind if you took a trip around detroit like I had on this day you would be shocked at the ruin. These houses burn and are left smack dab in the middle of perfectly fine houses..... for years. The city is a wreck.
I desire for this place to rise up again. It begins with awareness, so now your semi aware.
