Abandoned Dollhouse

The picture depicts a dollhouse among some rubble in an abandoned lot. In the background, you can see several abandoned houses. The dollhouse is supposed to look like some kind of fancier, higher-end house. The irony of it is that its marked, defaced, and is surrounded with rubble and trash, much like a lot of the houses in Detroit. This can be thought of as a symbol for Detroit itself. It was once a thriving city that was the standard of living for a time. Over the years though it's gotten extremely rundown and the once thriving businesses and the cookie-cutter working middle class is no more. The bottle of alcohol in the balcony of the toy house can be seen as a symbol of how many of the residents of Detroit have fallen to drugs and alcohol.