SCOTT HOCKING

  Garden of the Gods 2009-2011
  Tartarus 2011
  Triumph of Death 2010
  Sisyphus and the Voice of Space 2010
  New Mound City 2010
  Roosevelt Warehouse and the Cauldron 2007-2010
  The Cauldron and Roosevelt Warehouse 2010
  Lao Zhu and the Flour Factory 2009
  The Zone 1999-2010
  Ziggurat and FB21 2007-2009
  Bad Graffiti 2007-present
  Shipwrecks 1999-present
  Mound Project 2007-present
  The Egg and MCTS 2007-present
  Detroit Love 2007-present
  Cast Concrete in the Auto Age 2008-present
  BeaUtica 2010
  Fountain of Youth Vending Machine 2008-2010
  Detroit Midden Mound 2008
  RELICS 2001-2010
  Tire Pyramid 2006
  Animals 2006
  Icelandic Saga 2006
  Exploring North America 2006-present
  Scrappers 2000-2004
  The Salon 2004-2006
  Found Slides 2000-2004
  Pictures of a City - Detroit 1997-2006
   
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  TIRE PYRAMID installation was made entirely from tires illegally dumped throughout Detroit neighborhoods and abandoned sites. 2,109 tires were gathered over the course of one week, installed on a front lawn in the suburb of Bloomfield Hills for two weeks, and finally removed for recycling at the cost of two dollars per tire. Most of the tires were gathered from two Eastside sites - the overgrown acres of the former City Airport Trailercoach Park and the road blocked streets of the I-94 Industrial Park Renaissance Zone. Once dismantled and removed for recycling, the tires were hauled to a recycling plant on the city's Westside, where they were unceremoniously heaped into a giant pile because the 'shredder' was broken. In the many years that I have worked in Detroit, there is no object more commonly dumped than tires.