Artist couple sets out moulded aluminium animals on Michigan streets on a wintry night

A husband-and-wife public art duo in Detroit, Hygienic Dress League, made aluminium their medium of art and the streets their gallery on a frigid wintry night.

This was a part of the People First Project, which seeks, according to its website: “A merry band of makers, a cohort of creatives, an assembly of architects and activists to transform Michigan Avenue in Corktown from a state highway to a complete street, to reconfigure the city to meet new needs, to PUT THE PEOPLE FIRST.”

It was a caravan, really that set out after sunset on a recent frigid polar vortex Monday, December 26, with a set of aluminium-moulded animal forms, powder-coated with a paint that made them glow a radioactive green in the dark. The green light emitting animal figures were a motif that symbolized HDL’s notions of human society’s toxic interventions in nature.

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They got into a borrowed van, which, with hazard lights on in the turning lane and bailed out a buck-and-doe crossing the highway, white deer forms, a gathering of sheep, a goose-crossing along a deserted street, a couple of deer and a deer family at various spots in the city.

Thought the frigid climate played the spoilsport to some extent and the pain job could not deliver the radioactive glow as expected the project was a wonderful effort both from the point of view of concept material as well as execution.