August 19 and 20 Ruin and Ruin Art

We checked into the Saint Regis Hotel just before dark on August 18. On August 19, we got our rental car and headed toward Belle Isle. But before we got there, we saw some vivid images on the decay of Detroit. The first image is a former house on Mack Ave (an east - west street and connects most of East Detroit with downtown). This image is from the net here. The site also has lots of pictures of other decayed buildings.




A few days later we saw some homes (second and third image) that had been made into works of contemporary art. 



This was done by the Heidelberg Project (the homes are located on or near Heidelberg Street in East Detroit.The Heidelberg project has its own website here. It is actually somewhat famous and almost three decades in operation.