Jillian Suzanne welcomed me to navigate through her private studio. In this episode, she shares that she is using a 1950’s Oxford Dictionary to inform her current works. Suzanne uses pages from the dictionary that host words that have been propagated to oppress and describe Black Americans. We then transition into how she has re-contextualized her findings of her ancestry into her newer works that have evolved from abstract works in black and white to releasing ancestral trauma with colors and physical depictions.