Foreclosure in the Firelands
Location St. Luke Episcopal Church
Food and Clothing Distribution Center 1349 West 78th Street Cleveland Ohio 44102 |
Foreclosure in the Fireland’s is about Cleveland feeling the effects of the foreclosure crisis. Today we are responding to economic hardship by tearing down the infrastructure of well designed neighborhoods and historic homes due to blight from the foreclosure crisis. This mural is about the clearing away and passing on of our closed churches and abandoned houses. We are all swept up in the motion of trying to conquer forces greater than ourselves. The walls are being built, the mirror like images of tomblike empty homes are passed between generations. Today we are tearing down historic buildings for casinos, spending money on demolition, and search for some direction for our people.
This mural is the beginning of a set of murals I plan to create through out the Cuyahoga watershed of the near west side, taking sites that are rustic, and in need of redesign and looking to the larger meaning we can find from our ancestors response.
This mural is the beginning of a set of murals I plan to create through out the Cuyahoga watershed of the near west side, taking sites that are rustic, and in need of redesign and looking to the larger meaning we can find from our ancestors response.
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