sky walker

Drowned Town venerates the predominantly Black towns and neighborhoods across the United States that were intentionally flooded and replaced with dams, reservoirs, or parks that still stand today. Once thriving Black communities like Oscarville in Georgia, Seneca Village in New York, and Vanport in Oregon now rest beneath water as the United States attempted to erase its memory. And while these drownings symbolize violence and loss, this work reframes water as an ancestral archive: the towns live on in its depths, remembered. From the water, a woman emerges to embody the memory of what was lost within her form. Her body materializes from the tide, shimmering with the lives that dwell beneath, while hands reach out from above to carry us into a freer tomorrow.