I wanted to explore the unshakable presence of the black spirit when it comes to documentation of the black bodies, specifically in a time where there is an obsession with the use of black and brown bodies as props of "coolness" and mainstream "culture."  Despite this obsession and the emptiness that comes along with it, society does not successfully objectify us - black and brown peoples.  Our spirit cannot be stolen or remanufactured at the will of media.  In this photo series, the models carry a spirit, a link to history, a thought deeply ingrained in their bodies, their skin, their soul that belongs only to them, to the history of their people, and to the people they will later pass this spirit onto.