No Peace for Sophy was in progress when George Floyd was killed, which influenced me to think more broadly about the work & its message. Sophy was born in 1830 in Orange , VA and was my third great grandmother, who was enslaved by descendants of the Madison family, then freed after Emancipation. She is every Black woman. I used images of Harriet Tubman (abolitionist and political activist) and Kara Walker (contemporary artist), as source material for this sculpture. She is hugging the white dove, a symbol of peace, defiantly. White is also the color of her oppressor. They are equal in this moment. Still, the golden egg is inside her, but unreachable.