A Visual Manifesto: Rituals for Repair

is a three-part experimental film installation and ceremonial offering rooted in Black feminist cosmologies, ancestral veneration, and the ongoing call for reparations. Projected onto three of my large black weavings inspired by African American quilting motifs—specifically three variations of the Log Cabin pattern—the films unfold as a multi-sensory manifesto. These weavings serve as sacred grounds, portals, and spiritual armor, holding space for Black femme voices to offer demands and prayers for repair.
Each film takes place in a distinct geography—Oakland, California with amara t smith and Courtney Desiree Morris; Tucson, Arizona with Amber Doe and Iris Escalante; and the Appalachian Trail in West Virginia with Tsedaye Makonnen and myself—the film centers Black women artists, healers, and caretakers as they navigate the intergenerational labor of survival and re-matriation. In this work, “repair” extends beyond policy or capital. It is spiritual, embodied, and relational. It begins with the premise that we must feel safe to repair—and that the power to do so exists within us and our communities.