In this video essay narrated by the disembodied, posthumous voices of the artists’ male family members––their late father and their tío––the viewer is led on an oral history journey. Time is non-linear and cyclical, both ending and beginning with the strike of a match.

The narrators of this work were the children of migrant laborers, picking cotton and okra as sharecroppers / tenant farmers through Navarro County, Texas in the 1940s - 50s. The brothers’ separate lives were both tethered to manual labor, from imprisonment and work as a prison farm laborer, to work in a hat factory. On a road trip, the artist tries to situate their current self within these contexts, bridging memories and inaccessible sites through simulation technology and digital renderings.