The President's House memorial is a sacred threshold - a place where visitors step into the very footprint where enslaved Africans labored in service to the first U.S. President. It is a space that moves you, transports you, and demands that you feel the weight of what erasure has cost this nation.

This was my first national public artwork, and its purpose was unambiguous: to ensure Black voices are heard and respected, and to center an African American reinterpretation of slavery, racial justice, and the nation's formation. The site pays homage to nine documented enslaved persons of African descent in the Washington household - their names inscribed, their presence restored.

The memorial is assembled from cultural fragments: Adinkra symbols, the names of African ethnic groups, and quotes about freedom and justice. Each element is a shard of a larger, deliberately fractured history - gathered here into a space of solemn reflection and resilience. Memory, in this work, is not passive. It is an act of resistance.