“where you go I go” is a series of diptychs that explore the connections that African Americans have with their african ancestors and cousins. We often feel so separated and like so much was lost through colonization, but the reality is that we maintained much more than we realize. The names of things may have changed, but the traditions remain. “In the Belly” represents the ways that we carry our ancestors and their traditions with us through the foods we eat. We know that our ancestors braided seeds into their hair to bring with them. This was preparation for an uncertain future. Now hundreds of years later we still eat many of those foods, and in many of the same ways. The way we prepare our foods, the foods themselves, and which foods we gravitate towards are all clues to who our ancestors were and how we still Keep them close. They are the soul behind “soul food” and why those foods feel so comforting.

The foods we eat are the descendants of the foods our ancestors ate.