But does that tree that exists in that exhibit have anything to do with your mom's? relationship with her trees?

No, not directly.

I mean, the installation in Sydney, I think if anything, it connects more to this relationship of collecting of oral histories.

So that entire installation is based on over 10 years of research that I've done into the Library of Congress's archives and their collection of oral histories of formerly enslaved African-American people.

There's a particular collection from the WPA from the 1930s where they collected over 2,300 firsthand oral stories from folks that were between 70 and some 121 years old.

And they were all born in enslavement.

So some of them were children and some of them grew to relative adulthood before emancipation.

There's a beautiful name for these little feathers, but they're pulling the water out of the air.