Scott Hocking and Clinton Snyder
RELICS, & Other Works
June 25–August 13, 2005

Focusing on the interplay between man and nature within the city of Detroit (that famously decaying, once-great American city), ‘urban archaelogists’ Scott Hocking and Clinton Snider sift through the city’s discards and abandoned “treasures” (collected daily on their travels to and from their work studio) to create their floor-to-ceiling installation-environments. The abject objects the artists collect and lovingly display as cultural artifacts operate as metaphors for naturally occurring life cycles (creation, decay and rebirth).