Captured in these photographs by James D. Griffioen we see the strange “greening” of what was once America’s most powerful production center — the Motor City. Amid the blocks of unsold, crumbling houses, nature is taking a stand, creating instances of such clear hammer-to-the-head metaphorical import that it’s hard not to smile or laugh at what is essentially the recycling of a city’s unused, gangrenous limbs. And it’s not just the houses that have gone feral in Detroit. For decades now, the famous Packer plant — the car factory that was, in its time, the largest single-structure manufacturing facility in the world — has been well-known for periodically catching fire. When plumes of smoke rise from hobo fires gone awry, the city allows parts of the plant to burn on and burn out; risking the lives of firemen would be throwing good after bad.