Throughout the past five centuries, Black people across the globe have navigated profound and often painful histories: colonization, slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, segregation, and mass incarceration. Yet within these histories lies a continuous thread of resilience, a testament to the perseverance that allow our communities to rise, rebuild, and thrive despite immense challenges. In this series, the photographer incorporates materials such as real glass and soil directly into the imagery, using them as visual metaphors to explore how memory, identity, and history are shaped over time. The glass evokes the pressures and disruptions that can mark our stories, while the soil suggests the obscuring of history. Through these layered elements, the work becomes an exploration of endurance and reclamation; highlighting how resilience continues to emerge even when our narratives feel fragmented, or partially buried.