Paradise

Paradise is a project centered around the systematic destruction of Black space in the early half to mid 20th century in the United States. The project uses archival images that captured Black communities and spaces before they were altered, divided and imagines an exodus of leaving Black Bottom/Paradise Valley and entering a fictional space, where paradise is both found and created. This work layers history, geography, social relations, and the present, laying them next to each other to create an image that is not only wholly of Detroit, but also America, using Detroit as a point of study.