The African American community is often plagued by one common issue: connection to their ancestors. Throughout their lives, African Americans are reminded that they have roots in Africa, but are left to imagine which region, what their traditions would have been, and what kind of future they would have created for themselves. SUNDER/SUTURE aims to represent the disconnect between African and African American people. Through a series of busts, Amina Daugherty will meld African traditions, cultures, and visual representations of beauty with modern elements of African American culture. They will be fashioned in such a way as to represent the confusion that the African American community tends to have about their lineage. Amina also plans to design each piece to look aged, as though they are artifacts, without distinctly representing a solo region. The goal is to cause the observer to feel confused, lost, and to question where it comes from, a mimicry of the feelings the American Black community often experience.