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

<p>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.</p> <p>This was a part of the People First Project, which seeks, according to its website: &ldquo;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.&rdquo;</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="http://www.alcircle.com/uploads/images/HDL1.jpg" alt="News" width="517" height="226" /><br />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&rsquo;s notions of human society&rsquo;s toxic interventions in nature.</p> <p>{googleAdsense}</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>