The steam rising up from manholes in Detroit's streets has always been an intriguing thing.
Well, the Hygienic Dress League, has decided to do something creative with it all.
John Metcalfe writes in Atlantic's City Lab that Hygenic Dress League, a tongue-in-cheek, registered Michigan corporation composed of local couple Steve and Dorota Coy, has created a pretty cool video using the steam. The Atlantic writes that couple has been working for years to inject weird life into Detroit's run-down architecture."
Metcalfe goes on to write:
With "Steam Projections," the artists delve into the surreal, ephemeral world of nightmares. With the help of a light projector, they conjure strange beings within the roiling emanations of a manhole: a gas mask-wearing figure whose body blurs into steam, a hulking pigeon that rotates like a bloated disco ball. The eerie images will be familiar to those acquainted with the League's previous work; others might wonder if their dinners were maliciously spiked with magic mushrooms.
