most interesting houses i've ever seen

Over the summer I took a trip with my high school church group to Detroit. it was a huge mission trip that brought people from all over the United States and even some countries on the other side of the world. Detroit as we walked through the street where he made history, and talk to people that came to see and hear about his work is seen to many people as a scary place of violence and poverty, but while I was there I saw that there was more to it, it was just a city that had gone though some tough times and is building its self back up. while I was in Detroit we got to see this amazing project called the "Heidelberg project". the art work is an entire street and the houses on that street, houses that had been mistreated, and one of the houses is the home of the man who made this project, Tyree Guyton. he was inspired to do this project because these homes were seen as trash and were probably going to be torn down by the city, but "Tyree Guyton " turned it into something inspiring and more attractive then what I was before. his main technic is that he covered anything with multi colored poka-dots because that was his fathers favorite thing. one of the homes at the street was even his own house that his mother still lives on. what was even better than restoring these homes to having a different purpose is that he used materials that he would find around the neighborhood and was seen as trash to anyone else. this project was all recycles material, so he cleaned up the neighborhood and put it all in the street into his own sculptures he created. however amazing this project was many people didn't like it. the became a main conflict in the neighborhood, and some of his art work was forcibly taken down by the city. what I love about this project is that its something you defiantly don't see everyday, and in a city that has had so much violence and has grown to have a bad reputation, this street is a good representation that even in the "bad" neighborhoods of Detroit there is color, and joy. to this day "Tyree Guyton " adds to his art work and I was even able to see and talk to him. I highly encourage you to go see this street of art and the homes there because it is truly amazing. there is so much there to see that I think anyone would find interesting.
this project proves that a home isn't just a roof, some windows and a door or a street. it all tells a story of someone's life and to someone that home means something to them, because to have a place to call home is important.