I won't display any pictures of it. I did take some however. Standing in my room, my old room, shooting the disrepair and the destruction. The bad monochromatic spray paint art on the walls. All the glass broken as well. Exposed wooden innards spilling out like giant wounds. It was unsettling, weird. But honestly I just watched my Mother die, so it's not destroying me in any real way.
So I took some photos. That's what I do after all. My daughter calls me Paparazzi. Which is germane, btw, as I am part Italian! I had to take the photos. I thought about it, letting it go, not documenting it with light and pixels, but I did.
1/2 hour later at the Good Beans Cafe Sally says, "all those people who take pictures of their old houses, show it on Facebook, yeah not my thing." I paraphrased there, she had a point. So I won't show the photos I took. I won't show you the nature that has returned (although tree bare and snow covered) to the vacant lots. Funny you wouldn't probably know there should be more (any) houses there, in these pictures i'm not showing you, but the geometry gives it away... a neighborhood has gone missing.
This is what happens, see, when someone leaves a place and no one fills the void. People ask: why does this happen? how can this happen? They think the destruction is what causes people to leave. Wrong. This is simply what happens after a house, and a neighborhood for the most part, go un-lived in. It simply falls apart, mostly on it's own.
The point (Sally's point) is in the misconception. The confusion. We have seen enough of this. You want to talk about confusion? How about the homeless here, walking around in 4 degree weather wrapped in blankets. Um, couldn't we fix them up and put them in some of these homes? And it's sucks that these are the pictures people see when they think of, or Google, places like Flint and Detroit Michigan... time for some more positive images.
So the pictures will not be shown, perhaps I can show these pictures in a different light on a different day. In the meantime you don't need to see more images of battered housing. Tomorrow I will explore Downtown a bit. I'll show you some Downtown, lots of good stuff there.