Two artists -- one a former Hamtramck resident -- plan to encase a vacant house in ice.
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A photographer and an architect plan to freeze one of Detroit's
thousands of abandoned homes this winter, encasing it in ice to draw
attention to foreclosures that have battered the region.
The
project from Gregory Holm and Matthew Radune, dubbed Ice House Detroit,
is the latest example of the remnants of Detroit's population loss and
industrial decline serving as both artistic inspiration and canvas.
"I've
been really fascinated by the whole mythology of Detroit and the
structures and what they represent," said Holm, who grew up on the
city's east side and lived in the suburb of Hamtramck from 1997 until
moving to New York City four years ago.
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