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HALL'S FLATS AND A SPRING STORM

The extremes of Flint's beauty and trauma are well expressed in the small neighborhood of Hall's Flats.

Pictured throughout this introduction, the neighborhood consists of a residential area north of Court Street and an industrial area identified on maps as "Aldrich Park" to the south.

Notably, Hall's Flats cannot be accessed by car from Court, the main thoroughfare. The neighborhood is sunk forty feet below the rest of the city, and has had ongoing problems with both flooding and industrial pollution as a result.

The abundance of water and wood contrasts sharply with the downtown business district just a couple blocks away. The large industrial complexes are already falling into ruin, with trees and weeds growing through concrete walls and steel supports rusted through. In its present isolation, the area feels haunted and hollow.

Once, in semi-ignorance, I set a play here, called A Spring Storm. In the end, the play depicted the neighborhood far more accurately than I could have reasonably expected.

All of my projects originate with something I've first noticed and then felt, and I place such recognition above both intellectual exercise and social conscience. This faith in my own observation is a necessary prerequisite to address situations that supercede logic.