"The Water Carries Us” traces Abayomi’s family history and ancestry of Nigerian and Black Native Freedmen descent from the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, lineages profoundly shaped by colonialism, the forced removal from ancestral lands, and enslavement. Through material engagement, the work examines the intertwined realities of racial formation in the United States, the rupture and disconnection from ancestral homelands, and the enduring search for belonging. Rooted in traditional ways of making and guided by Afro-Indigenous mythologies, this practice becomes a vessel for transcending time and space, carrying forward stories submerged and nearly erased within the framework of America.