For now, Part II of my Great Lakes Industrial series that takes city layouts and fills in the lines.

When I visited Cleveland a few years ago, my tour bus became lost in what is knows as "the Flats." This area of Cleveland is notoriously old, rundown, and in the Cuyuga River floodpain (which cause much of the deterioation) In my hotel, I read in the newspaper that some of this area was going to be rebuilt, but this editor believed that rebuilding the flats is like sanitizing the well-worn seats of Brown Stadium, the character is what makes Cleveland what it is. That evening I took a riverboat tour and passed under the many bridges and into Lake Erie. Looking back, the city was beautiful and looks well-planned, but go back to the city streets and you will change your opinion. (You might think that Cleveland is tricky to navigate, but I was lost trying to draw some of the streets, I eventually just scribbled in some lines that achieve the disorientating feeling of this city) "Cleveland Crumbles" is not only reminiscent of the crumbling buildings I discovered, but also because several large steel mills and shipyards pound away 24-7 and make this city an industrial relic.

Watercolour, sharpie, and ink pen on watercolour paper. Based on the city streets of Cleveland, Ohio.