Detroit - 9834 Chenlot Street

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Today I invite you to view an 'artsy' experiment, my first one this year. Fascinated by the deterioration of the urban core of Detroit, I zeroed in on a house on Google Street View and through the magic of Photoshop, transformed it into an eerie fire scene, fueled only by my imagination.

Detroit's plight is mostly blamed on racial unrest but I fear this urban blight is only the 'canary in the coal mine' as upcoming financial chaos spreads to epidemic proportions and our economy as we know it collapses under the impossible burden brought on by decades of cheap credit. In the name of racial discrimination all kinds of terrible events have escalated in recent months, but many see that racialism is only a symptom or excuse to demonstrate against the hopelessness that millions of North Americans feel when they wake up every day. Time will tell if Trump's MAGA (Make America Great Again) can truly work. Somehow I doubt it.

The map shows the seriousness of the decay with many homes now missing; obliterated completely.

Petosky-Ostego area of central Detroit:
% of unoccupied buildings: 37.8%
# of unoccupied buildings: 2,614

With large brick homes and two-family flats, this area was booming in the 1920s with a growing Jewish population. But the area eventually gave way to rampant crime, poverty and abandonment. Some blocks are lined with garbage, burned-out brick homes and overgrown lots.

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You can go to the actual Google map if you CLICK HERE.
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