As a Michigan native, I am fascinated by those that "came from" a similar background. I feel a connection and wish to support them! Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead.
According to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit's (MOCAD) Press Release, "Mobile Homestead, one of Mike Kelley’s last major projects, will be completed later this year in Detroit, the city where the artist spent the first two decades of his life. Kelley grew up in a 1950s single-story ranch-style house in Westland in the suburbs of Detroit. Kelley’s Mobile Homestead project is based on the construction of a full-size replica of the childhood home, relocated to the center of the city in a reversal of the ‘white flight’ which accelerated after the ‘12th Street Riot’ of 1967".
What a great concept! HOME is WHERE THE HEART IS. As someone that moved away from her childhood home and home state, I truly feel home will always be where I was raised as a child, Grand Blanc, Michigan. I am lucky my house still stands, and can identify with the idea of recreating one's childhood home to let one's memory live on ... beyond one's life. Childhood is a very SIMPLE time in life. It is a time without bills, responsibilities and, personal and professional obligations. Returning to that peaceful time, via memories or artifacts, can bring serenity to someone.
MOCAD's Press Release continued to state, "Kelley had signed off on plans and a site for the project in late 2011 before his death in January 2012. The Trustees of the Mike Kelley Estate have now agreed with the commissioners of Mobile Homestead, the London-based arts organization Artangel, the LUMA Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) that the project will be completed this year".
What an exciting project. Can't wait to see it!
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