The Beauty of Blight

Growing up in Michigan inculcated an innate respect, admiration and admission of the inherent beauty of dilapidation. The Midwest, as a part of the Rust Belt, is an area fertile with forests, farms and wetlands, as well as abandoned factories, blighted homes and cracked, busted and overgrown parking lots no longer in use. 


I'm working again on making paintings about the relationship between this environment and it's inhabitants. What follows are some of the images I've found while researching.