8/15/2023 0 Comments Mint condition 2022I felt like, “Even though I’m driving thirty minutes to get to this party, I’m still going to look good.” (laughs) One thing that got me through living in Plymouth was making clothes to wear to parties. I was just so angry and depressed about it. So we ended up in Plymouth for a few years. I was feeling so much connection to this place and this house. You have twenty days to move out.” I was just totally broken by it. One day, at the end of summer before my junior year of high school, a sheriff came to the door and was like, “We’re evicting you. Now I understand how those kinds of loans are a tactic often used in redlining, making sure that when poor communities or Black communities buy homes, they can be easily undervalued or that the costs can shift unexpectedly so that folks are forced to move away at any given time. That basically allows the bank to change the interest rate to whatever, whenever, they wanted to (based on the market). When my grandparents bought it, they got it for a crazy price, like $60,000, but they also got an ARM loan, which was an adjustable-rate mortgage. They were investigating who actually owned our mortgage. I thought, “How could we leave? We have so much stuff in this house.” (laughs) Our family had been in this house for thirty years at that point. That didn’t make any sense to me as a child. My family was trying to figure out how to keep our house, and I was told we would probably have to leave the family house. Suddenly that changed, and it became you c ouldn’t fall behind on payments. I didn’t know about it at the time, but my family was looking into getting mortgage assistance, which you have to fall behind on your mortgage payments to qualify for. My grandpa didn’t have health insurance or something along those lines and a recession had just happened. That also kicked off these looming feelings that I didn’t have words for at the time. ![]() But, before that, in seventh grade, my grandpa passed away, and that was the first major death in my life. Yeah, I was about 18, right after my senior year of high school. How did that impact your practice? For instance, with Hymn of Dust, you were nearly a teenager when you made it, right? You probably wouldn’t encounter any danger that you didn’t make for yourself. You can have the luxury of the concrete and abandoned industrial buildings to explore without it being too risky because it’s a small enough city. ![]() There is something about growing up in Minneapolis that feels special in that way. We’d go into the tunnels off the river or just hang out at the top of car parks. The older kids in the neighborhood would break into the old Bungee building and jump across the open pits. It always felt like a concrete playground. Looking back at my own experience growing up in Minneapolis, I have a romantic view of running around the Twin Cities. As I got older and could go wherever I wanted to go in the city, there were a lot of other private places that I could find in the vicinity of where I grew up, which made it feel more tender. ![]() I think back on my adolescence in storybook terms because there was always access to the outside world, and the inside world was bustling, full of people.
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