Justin Ellis

In an empty arena, the seats a ghost’s playground, the floors shiny and robbed of traffic, everything is plain and naked and disturbingly honest. And in that absence is a lesson about what we think we should see.If you had found yourself wanting to watch the NBA playoffs the night of August 26, live from the league’s quarantine “bubble” in Florida, this was the reality you faced. Emptiness, confusion, and signs of corporate sponsorship.

Photographs by Wing Young HuieBack in the late 1990s, the photographer and Minnesota native Wing Young Huie started an ambitious project to love malls.) Instead, only Kmart showed up. And Kmart had a list of demands, the biggest being closing off Nicollet Avenue. They severed south Minneapolis from downtown just to maintain big-box-store standards.This was the neighborhood I grew up in, and in my mind, that Kmart has looked worn down since the day it opened.