Layered with symbolic objects and imagery, this work considers the need to uncover hidden narratives. It reveals the links between colonialism and climate catastrophe, and the role of mythologies as a means of connecting with the past and resisting persecution. The serpentine form of the tapestry refers to the deity Mami Wata (Mother Water). Half woman, half snake, she was a powerful presence in the spiritual lives of enslaved African people and their descendants during the Transatlantic slave trade. The continued presence of Mami Wata across the African diaspora defies the ways belief systems of enslaved men and women were brutally oppressed during chattel slavery. Alberta has stated that the work reflects the ‘acquisitiveness of Empire’ – the diamond form and inclusion of whaling rope in the tapestry reference the mining of natural resources from the earth and sea.