Arielle's work aims to create new artefacts and objects of sentimental value to symbolise those items that were lost, stolen and destroyed through forced migration and slavery. In addition, this project aims to acknowledge her family members who lost their lives and futures during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This is a way to link to her ancestors by exploring the same practices and the same materials that they would have.

In this installation Arielle looks towards her identity, culture and Gabonese heritage. She draws inspiration from the Etheridge slave plantation (the South Carolina plantation her ancestors were enslaved on) and uses materials inspired by the crops grown on the plantation; indigo and cotton. She incorporates these concepts in her work due to the dark history of the crops for African American slaves and to evoke connections to The Middle Passage, The Black Atlantic and Drexciya.