JJ in Detroit
This is a portrait of the amazing model/pin up girl JJ Plush from my road trip last October. She is standing in front of a burnt out house near The Heidelberg Project - which is an art installment of many painted/adorned abandoned houses spread over a few mostly abandoned blocks in the city.

This image perfectly captures how certain devestated cities make me feel - Detroit, St Louis, Baltimore, Gary, Philly... Just the sheer number of abandoned houses, often block after block off them, really drive home the reality of it more  than any single large abandonment ever could.


For more info on the Projects see their website here: http://www.heidelberg.org/
Also there is a project in Detroit called the DDD project  where people paint houses orange in order to get them demolished so as not to enable illegal activity in their neighborhoods: http://www.thedetroiter.com/nov05/disneydemolition.php

Detroit is a fascinating place...