Clinton Snider
30 July 2003
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Ghetto Palm pops up in Detroit again, not surprisingly. This time it is the subject of a painting by Clinton Snider, a CCS grad into found object art and Detroit desolation. You can see a thumbnail of his painting, Tree of Heaven, at the link above. The article picks up on the dual meanings of the tree:
Melancholy seems to be the pervasive mood here, but not entirely. After all, it was a tree of heaven that grew in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. So on one level the painting is about the decline of modern civilization in Detroit, but on another arguably more important level, it is about the persistence of life even in the city’s most desolate provinces.
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