This image is from the Birthplace of the Blues series, a collaborative documentary project that examines the forgotten aspects of the Mississippi Delta as navigated through the Blues. The work functions as an artistic, educational, and informational resource that examines the contributions the region and its people have had on larger culture while also noting the legacy and loss found relevant to American society. This image captures the agricultural and residential space of the fields within the Delta. The scene serves as a vehicle to carry the weight of the past while celebrating the beauty of the people. The sharecropper that once resided, the slaves that once toiled, the blood of the ancestral past, are all held within this place -- while also acknowledging the building of the American economy upon these same remnants of pain. It is in this place that as a black artist working in the South find a connection to past and present, my identity in equal parts pain and pleasure.