Andrew Moore Chomatic Digital Print, Model T Headquarters Detroit, Michigan

Design Plus Gallery presents the Original Digital Chromatic Print by Artist Andrew Moore of the Model T Headquarters in Highland Park, Detroit. This is one of a series of photographs Andrew Moore took of abandoned Ford Motor Company buildings that symbolize the end of an era. Vibrant greenery creeping across the floor of a structure that once housed a thriving industry suggests nature’s dual powers of destruction and renewal. “The past,” says the artist, “is receding so quickly that time itself seems to be distorted.” Moore’s 2009 photograph of the former executive offices of Ford’s Model T Headquarters building in Detroit conveys a sense of both death and rebirth, as the metallic walls of the abandoned space have bloomed into rust and the carpet has sprouted moss. Moore pointed out the themes of decay and growth that are present in the work: “In an urban setting, you could also have a landscape happening, the forces of nature intersecting with American urbanism, the process of decline also intersecting with the revival of nature.” Has damage to the backside but is overall in good condition for display.