I was 16 when I took this photo, lived in metro Detroit then and live in east Detroit now.

I was into halloween, comics, new wave music, and spanish magical realism literature. My room was the best because it was complete and total excess. Everything I liked went on the wall, and I had secret drawers with snacks, cigarettes, and hair dye stashed in them. My mom basically let me decorate however I liked, as long as it was easy to paint over - the summer I took this, I painted a mural above my bed to practice painting for my college applications, and most of my furnishings came from random garage sales I’d go to daily.