  About the Artwork
  
  
  Scott Hocking creates site-specific works as well as photographs of his installations made in neighborhoods, historical sites, and factories throughout Detroit. He has witnessed the decline of the city and its infrastructure but sees its transformation as a more universal phenomenon in keeping with the cycle of time and the course of civilizations past and present. This photograph shows the abandoned and self-demolishing Packard Plant, a manufacturing site for the Packard Motor Car from 1907 to 1954. Since closing, the complex has become a mecca for graffiti artists, scrappers. and illegal dumping. During visits to the site, Hocking discovered discarded television consoles that he transported to the partially collapsed roof of the complex. Using the columns as pedestals for the consoles, he created a modern-day temple of gods. hence his title Garden of the Gods, taken from the ancient classical Greek Pantheon of the same name. 
 
From Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 89 (2015)
  
  
  Title
  Garden of the Gods South, Winter
  
  
  Artwork Date
  2009, printed 2010
  
  Artist
  Scott Hocking
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  born 1975
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Pigment inkjet print on paper
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 33 × 49 1/2 inches (83.8 × 125.7 cm)
  Framed: 37 5/8 inches × 55 1/2 inches × 2 inches (95.6 × 141 × 5.1 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Photographs
  
  
  Department
  Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of the artist, Scott Hocking and Susanne Hilberry Gallery
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  2010.63
  
  
  Copyright
  Non-commercial all standard museum
