I have been to Detroit many times since the late 1970's. I was planning on coming to Detroit to document the subject of my project, but found that it had already been demolished in September of 2007. I also understand something about what it means to represent something or someone, as I wrote my graduate thesis on this matter. As to proving my point - do you mean that I should provide evidence of dead architecture in Detroit, or what is it you otherwise have in mind? For myself I perceive my project as a metaphor about America, not only Detroit, since what happened in Detroit, which generated more wealth in the last hundred or so years than most cities that have ever been on this earth, is clearly a part of the U.S., which is the richest country that has ever existed in the history of the world. Metro Detroit is not broke. According to the Wall Street Journal there are 89,000 millionaires in the region, more than in San Jose, where the Silicon Valley is located.