The Middle Passage was the longest and most dangerous of the slave trading routes between Africa, Europe, and the Americas between the years 1619 and 1820. Kidnapped from their homeland, the Africans endured horrific conditions on this voyage that took two months or more.

This triptych is an attempt to bring awareness to the inhumanity that continues as a result of racism, sexism, or misplaced ideologies. Each panel depicts the only view of the world a slave would have had from the ship's hull: sunset or dawn, midnight, and mid-day seen through the grate on deck. The painted panels are framed behind grids of padouck wood, assembled with the exactness of a Rubick's cube. The deep colors of the sky next to the rich, red hue of the crossed bars draw the viewer into a world of beauty and confinement, representing the only hope a slave would have in viewing the stars and the sky while suffering a human atrocity.