"In Emancipate the Landscape, Kiki Symonè, Mbonisi Zikhali and Talysha Bujold-Abu come together to create a collaborative story that celebrates the brilliant resilience and inherent elegance of everyday Blackness. The presented collection of words and images mingle in a collective tapestry that objects to circumvent the colonial crafted illusion of white supremacy by deconstructing the sabotaged narrative perpetuated by the dominant culture which illustrates Black people in a negative context while also commodifying and commercializing a history of Afro trauma inflicted by an institutional system of whiteness. This celebration of story reclaims the Afro aesthetic from the fetishized thirst of mainstream culture and returns it to the land from which it organically manifested. Emancipate the Landscape is pulling back the layers of manufactured Blackness, to expose truths that have been hidden in plain sight."