The Crossing series visualizes the African Holocaust, using abstraction as the narrative structure of this global historical and social phenomenon. It uses Black people’s naturally textured hair as a central, unifying visual element. The Crossing narrative consists of ‘scenes’ or active landscapes which convey the experience of Black people struggling for freedom as they cross the world in ships as captives in pre-and post-colonial eras, crossing borders, languages, cultures, gods, and identities. It is well documented many of those captives committed suicide by throwing themselves overboard. Subsequentially challenging the concept of suicide as self-murder, rather than a requirement of spiritual freedom or a quest for life and redemption in response to the loss of ?free will? a fundamental human right. And against the inherent evil of degradation, despair, and death in human captivity.