Throughout much of my life, the markers of identity have shaped my artistic choices, from the materials I could access to the narratives I was expected to produce. I have since embarked on a search for an internal space, seeking the quiet of my mind where predetermined meaning begins to dissolve. Through this work, I explore where I locate myself within these structures while inviting viewers to reflect on how identity, agency, and authorship operate in their own lives. In the lineage of Black artists who came before me, this journey is explicitly my own to claim and define.