“Ends With Me” is a declaration of interruption. This piece speaks to the moment someone decides that inherited pain, violence, fear, and survival patterns will go no further. Centered in the work is a young Black girl standing with a quiet but undeniable force, her shirt reading the words that define the piece: Ends With Me. She is small in stature, yet spiritually immense. Her posture is calm, her gaze unwavering. She does not beg for safety, permission, or understanding. She stands in decision.
The two dogs beside her operate as layered symbols. They can be read as protectors, witnesses, survival instincts, or the looming presence of danger and generational conditioning. Their scale and intensity heighten the emotional tension of the piece, while her stillness becomes its true center of power. The environment around her feels urban, heavy, and charged, pointing to the realities that shape identity early, especially for Black children who are often forced to carry awareness beyond their years.
This work is about breaking cycles. It is about a child holding a burden she did not create, yet choosing to become the point where it stops. “Ends With Me” honors the courage it takes to resist what has been normalized, to rewrite what has been inherited, and to imagine a future not rooted in repetition, but in transformation.
“Ends With Me” is a declaration of interruption. This piece speaks to the moment someone decides that inherited pain, violence, fear, and survival patterns will go no further. Centered in the work is a young Black girl standing with a quiet but undeniable force, her shirt reading the words that define the piece: Ends With Me. She is small in stature, yet spiritually immense. Her posture is calm, her gaze unwavering. She does not beg for safety, permission, or understanding. She stands in decision.
The two dogs beside her operate as layered symbols. They can be read as protectors, witnesses, survival instincts, or the looming presence of danger and generational conditioning. Their scale and intensity heighten the emotional tension of the piece, while her stillness becomes its true center of power. The environment around her feels urban, heavy, and charged, pointing to the realities that shape identity early, especially for Black children who are often forced to carry awareness beyond their years.
This work is about breaking cycles. It is about a child holding a burden she did not create, yet choosing to become the point where it stops. “Ends With Me” honors the courage it takes to resist what has been normalized, to rewrite what has been inherited, and to imagine a future not rooted in repetition, but in transformation.