This dossier began as a misunderstanding. For a year I sat across from a profession that guarded its own language, reluctant to translate it, to adapt, to meet anyone halfway. So I stopped waiting to be let in, and set out to tell it myself.

What had been a year of friction became a place to reveal a person · my sensibilities, my most intimate interests, set down in matter, colour and rhythm. The same way I have always found myself in the music I love and the food I cook.

Solange said her album was an attempt to build universes and homes, because she was always on the road. This dossier is an extension of that same intention · like her, I have gathered the fragments of home, and of myself, scattered across the world, and made a single place of them. A space that tells not one story but many · complex, rich and plural, the rhythm that has shaped this project, and my life so far.

Through the flourish that some hide behind, I came to the pure essence of the craft · and so, now, this medium is mine.