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Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead | Chicago News
Mike Kelley’s “Mobile Homestead” is a haunting, rolling replica of his childhood home—a movable monument to suburban dreams and cultural decay. Built after he couldn’t buy his original Michigan house, the structure detaches like a trailer, traveling from Detroit’s downtown to his old neighborhood and back, symbolically reversing “white flight.” Christened like a ship by poet John Sinclair, it later anchored at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit as a full-scale replica—with a deliberately inaccessible basement representing the hidden unconscious of American middle-class fantasy. The upper…
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