Self-portraiture allows me to respond to those images of people who were put on display as examples of inferiority, politicized black bodies in the early history of photography. Images made long ago and ideas perpetuated even now. I document myself in places where the history becomes tangible. Acting like a conduit or receptor, in both protest and solidarity, with people whose names have been forgotten and whose contributions remain unacknowledged. Conjuring past memories embedded in the land. For a few moments I am at the curtain of time, collapsing dimensions. The resulting images are both historical and anti-historical, as they pose questions to which the answers have been violently denied. Not Gone with the Wind and Lobbying the Gods for a Miracle were photographed at the Lefferts House in Flatbush, Brooklyn. One of Kings County’s biggest slaveholding families, the Leffertses derived much of their wealth from the labor of enslaved people and, after statewide emancipation in 1827, of tenants that tilled their land.