An interactive spatial experience urging the audience to engage with the piece to reveal the message: I am | trapped | inside | this | box | you | put | me | in | and I | can’t | breathe. This piece is a commentary on the silencing of Black people in Western society.

This project is critically engaging with photography. 12 photo cards (50cmx50cm) arranged along a timber fame to form 3 stacked cubes (total height 1.5m), each with an A side and a B side. On the A side, photographs are taken from my personal archive as symbols of the Black Quotidian. Each photocard is associated with a sound. On the B side is a black square alluding to the performative activism in response to the Black Lives Matter Movement in 2020. The black squares each contain part of the message and have no associated sound. Silent.

When all photographs are shown, all sounds are playing through headphones, resulting in discomfort from the cacophony. It is too much, too loud. The audience is told that to engage with the piece, the headphones must be worn until it is silent. They must flip the cards – silence the Black voice— to be comfortable, and in doing so reveals the message.