The second part of the exhibition explores the tactile, material confluences of joy, freedom making and vitality. Three main pieces form a spatial ground for coming together to celebrate resistance and the imaginary of hope. The ground riffs on New Orleans’s Congo Square, sacred ground in the Black community. The oaks and cypresses celebrate the landscape as a space which held Black and Native communities, much of which is now lost to development. Finally, the wall embodies water, which shapes the city’s past, present and future.