These works are in response to the violent history of Eurocentric image-making dating back to the Renaissance and Romanesque eras, where the Christian church dictated who was seen and how history was recorded. The intersection of Spirituality, Christianity, and the African Diaspora have a complex and intertwined past that has informed the evolution of one another- and with these works, I reimagine painterly depictions of Saints and Martyrs who share similar strifes as the contemporary black diaspora while questioning and exploring the relationship between blackness and the church. The repetition in the themes of this series speaks to the evident parallels between past and future and the frequency in which these stories show up in contemporary black lives.