Detroit has taken a beating— it’s essentially dead. With median home prices hanging around used car territory much of the city’s real estate sits empty and decaying. Jobs are few and far between. When looked at through the prism of any traditional economic marker the situation is bleak.

This is despair.
This is darkness.
This is poverty.
This is art.
Or at least the engine of art.

To see what I mean - to see how what’s happening in Detroit is providing a fertile ecology for completely mind blowing art - to see how Detroit is the one true setting for the undiluted telling of the American story - click through to see more images like the ones below.

Maybe it’s just me - just my over active imagination (I mean, I’ve never even been to Detroit) - but work like this is an indication that something is happening in that ghost of a city - something real. So keep an ear to Detroit… it’s saying something.