Ice House Detroit

Posted by Devon Akmon | Filed under Art & Design

This afternoon a colleague and I took a break from our work to check out Gregory Holm and Matthew Radune’s art project, Ice House Detroit, on the city’s east side. Holm (a photographer) and Radune (an architect), both of Brooklyn, acquired the abandoned house at 3926 McClellan from the Michigan State Land Bank in exchange for paying the back taxes on another area home. In short, the project was an attempt at drawing attention to the mortgage foreclosure crisis.

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Today the temperature was a warm 38 degrees Fahrenheit, the sun was shining and there was not a cloud in the sky during our visit. Yeah, you guessed it, the Ice House was melting. In fact, I was really surprised to discover that a substantial portion of the project had already melted away. Here are some photos I took of the Ice House using my DSLR. I also shot a role of film using my Holga, which I’ll share soon, and some images with my iPhone. The whole collection can be viewed on Flickr. I wish I would have gotten over to the Ice House this past weekend before it began to melt. Oh well.