By Ranjan Bhaduri
Feb 3, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Gregory Holm and Matthew Radune worked for two very long and wet weeks to get a house completely encased in snow. There are thousands of houses in Detroit that have been abandoned. One of these houses was selected by the artist duo in order to put the lime light on the nation’s housing crisis.

The house is two-storied and is all boarded up. Ice sheets now cover these boarded up windows and the icicles glisten in the sun rays, courtesy Gregory Holm, the photographer and Matthew Radune, the Architect. In this neighborhood, abandoned homes have become a common sight due to high foreclosure rate in the city. The Ice House Detroit Project has at least given the people still living in the neighborhood, a chance to look at something other than boarded up windows. Gregory Holm, who is a photographer from New York said that they were just trying give their neighborhood a gift and that it “doesn’t mean that things are going to change afterward.”

Come spring, the same house will be nothing but rubble, so that at least the materials can be used. The duo also have an Youtube video which is named “First Persin: Detroit Home Encased In Ice”. A 43-year-old man, Jeff Taylor who was driving down the lane, said that the sight was amazing and that “he just had to stop and take a look”. The freezing process had to be quite hard since the ice would melt with the sun shining even though the temperature stayed in the tens.