American civil-rights icon Rosa Parks moved from Alabama to Detroit in 1957. Her first home in the city, on South Deacon Street, was demolished last week.
Well, not all of it. American artist Ryan Mendoza stepped in to preserve the façade of the house, shipping it to Germany in two 40-foot containers, at his own expense, in order to turn it into a piece of art.
Mendoza, a 44-year-old from New York who now splits his time between Berlin and Naples, will spend the next few months reconstructing what’s left of the two-story house in his studio in the German capital, with a view to taking it on a tour of European museums. [...]
“What I would like to do is hold the house hostage,” Mendoza told people at the house’s farewell ceremony in Detroit, before taking it away to Berlin. “America, you lost this house… you gotta get it back. And it’s going to cost you. And I want that money to go to the Rosa Parks foundation.”
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