ash blurs the lines between artistry and activism through exploring the idea of direct action as a tool to affect change. With this philosophy, social, racial, and civil rights issues are typically combatted through methods of violence or non-violence. ash provides an alternative perspective on the way life could be. Presenting black people targeted and subjected to the brutality of systemic inequities in America as true art, and against feeding into the mass appeal.

Baldwin states in his essay, The Creative Process, the artist's role in society, being an isolating one at that, must make aware to society that within this visible reality hides a hidden reality. Often times this hidden reality can be discovered through the internal strife of non-blacks. ash sheds light on this apprehension through inducing confrontation of fears simply by manipulating a space with that fear.

Stephanie asks you to, "imagine a panoptic view of the varied Black identities and communities throughout Africa and the Diaspora. A visual representation of our black hemisphere, a spectrum of shades of brown, a melanin infused rainbow: black berry, black gold, ebony, honey brown, brownin, redbone, and high yellow."

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