"Life doesn't pause for grief or fear. You might be going through something devastating but you're still packing lunches, still driving your kids to baseball practice, still showing up to work. One minute I find myself prepping for a whole home presentation and the next minute I'm checking the news, hoping and praying that no one has been killed on the streets today."
"My hometown feels like a police state. An estimated 3,000 ICE agents are operating in and around the city under "Operation Metro Surge." For some perspective, the entire Minneapolis Police Department has roughly 600 officers. ICE agents are everywhere, dressed in tactical gear, faces covered, carrying weapons. They move through neighborhoods in rented SUVs with missing front plates and out-of-state tags-though even this is changing by the second. I just heard today that now they're in plain clothes, no masks, and driving minivans."
Daily life proceeds amid fear and grief, with routine tasks like packing lunches and driving children to activities continuing even during crisis. A trip to London revealed metalsmiths shaping molten material into sculptural light fixtures and designers distilling antique forms into renewed beauty, demonstrating how art and design can provide emotional relief. Frequent calls home align with teenagers' return from school to ask whether ICE appeared or anyone was taken. An estimated 3,000 ICE agents operate around Minneapolis under "Operation Metro Surge," compared with roughly 600 local police officers. Agents have appeared in tactical gear and later in plain clothes, and two painters were detained last Thursday.
Read at Architectural Digest
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