Part of the Heidelburg Project of art displays using the most humble of ingredients in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood, just above Detroit, Michigan's, historically African-American Black Bottom area. The outdoor art environment began in 1986 in part as political protest, as artist Tyree Guyton returned from Army service to find his neighborhood looking, he said, as if "a bomb went off" in the years following destructive riots. Over time, some city officials have seized or bulldozed some of the art installations, but (as of 2019) it survives
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