"Child, East Side"

This image portrays a toddler roaming a junk ridden yard in the Detroit suburbs. The blurry quality of the photograph alludes to the obscured perception of a child's eye, unable to fully comprehend the devastation and instability around them. Thus, the child frolics through the trash as if it is her own playground. The trash itself stands as a symbol for the problems, and their consequences, of Detroit. The accumulation of these issues--including racial tension, corrupt government action, unemployment, and crime--creates a troublesome environment for a child to grow up in. The mistakes of previous generations, as well as those that are in power now, build up like trash in the Detroit suburbs. The child in the photograph stands alone, no one there to guide her through the chaos. The younger generations of America are left to clean the mess, burdened with a future of uncertainty.