Addison Ave., Cleveland, 2016 – painted on the side of one of the many abandoned homes of the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood. Relatively speaking, it’s crime happy and poverty rich, and there are divisions with the original Slovenians and Blacks. Make no mistake, both groups live in a slum, even by Cleveland standards. In the cities of the Rust Belt, once home to America’s largest and dominant cities, obscured now by areas of the city redeveloping and gentrifying, is a forgotten population that still lives in the city and neighborhoods they maintain and their parents built.
The house was demolished in 2018.