In Her Detroit Backyard garden, Halima Cassells Honors Her Ancestors With Her Artwork
The Artist Up coming Door illuminates and celebrates Detroit place artists from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds and disciplines to improve consciousness and knowing of our communities and cultures.
Erik Paul Howard
Artist Halima Cassells’ North End dwelling is a lush urban oasis.
It feels like a extremely Detroit thing to have property tunes gently floating out the window and into the backyard on a summer evening.
That’s the scene in multidisciplinary artist Halima Cassells’ lush urban oasis in Detroit’s North End community, the place she grows a lot of of the things she consistently cooks for herself and her relatives. There are skyscrapers and a freeway not significantly absent from her residence, but it is easy to ignore you are in a city among the the vegetation and artwork scattered around the yard.
“Below we have potatoes, asparagus, chives, celery…,” Cassells lists off the veggies expanding in