Sarai Bernice is a queer Chicago born multidisciplinary artist, educator, and avid learner of practices of freedom who uses dreams and the organic world as inspiration. They use an Afro-surrealist lens to juxtapose biology with theory, drawing attention to political implications of ancestral code. Sarai's most recent project portrays concepts around the body as terrain, Earth as ancestor and ancestor as self. Their interest in science fiction mixed with the somewhat nation-less feeling they have as a Black American has led to idealizing otherworldly imagery. Through travel, land stewardship, and lots of reading, however, it became apparent that our Earth is actually very mysterious. Sarai latched onto these experiences through continued research and is creating a series that transforms science fiction back into Earth science; Earth science into an honoring of the ancestors.