it began between #tiohtià:ke and #kjipuktuk— between bodies, between losses, within and against the structures that were never meant to hold us, and those we made to hold each other anyway.

this project moves through lands that remain unceded: kanien’kehá:ka territory. mi’kma’ki. these names are reminders, not repairs. they mark the ground as contested, alive beneath occupation.

i move here as a black diasporic person, carried by displacement and extraction, shaped by capture and the refusal to stay captured. relation is the only claim i can make— relation, tension, accountability.

the cities i pass through were raised by empire. i know them as ruins still pretending to be nations.

drift follows what cannot be stabilized, what slips through record, what returns in spite of erasure.

this page is an act of remembering where i stand and what that standing costs.