This work was produced as a special commission for the SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah, Georgia) to be shown in dialogue with letters and manuscripts from the Frederick Douglass Family Archive. Below was my initial text to the curator explaining why I chose this letter and why it connected to the FD archive.

To read a letter from the past however near or distance, a letter not written to you personally becomes an incredible experience of entering into the "others" most intimate and private space. The intentions behind what is written can be obscure and impossible to penetrate to the outsider or uninitiated. This is a difficult letter, my mother's outrage toward her father overflows. I struggle with this letter, I've wanted to make this work for many years but could never pull the trigger on it until now. No other letter in my archive is as troubling to me as this one is. It's driven me deeper into an investigation of our families archive than any other work I've ever made.

Also this letter appears in it’s entirety in the Crackle & Drag film. All three pages are slowly scrolled though while the background noise is the subway in NYC.