A meditation on the idea of Blackness inspired from Axel's travels to his motherland, Côte d'Ivoire.
Axel explores belonging and authenticity over the course of their life. There was often a conflict between the historical racial familial and personal elements that informed their identity. Instead of being one thing this work is an attempt to reconcile and accept all the parts of themself that they either wrongfully internalized or intuitively knew to be true. By going within it becomes a rediscovery of the essence of who they actually are and how that should be what they hold onto instead of over identifying with societal projections.
Edited by Eleanor McDowall for Short Cuts from BBC Radio 4