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I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of time in my head. It’s been that way for as long as I can remember. As a kid, my mind was a fascinating place. But at some point in my early teens things started to change. By my mid twenties, that playground felt more like a prison yard - a hard place, full of angst, fear, and a growing sense of hopelessness. How did this happen? And more importantly, what was I to do about it? What I didn’t know was that I was going through what popular psychology calls a “quarter life crisis” - that awkward and harrowing transition from boyhood to manhood. What I also didn’t fully grasp was just how dangerous this transition is for Black males such as myself. How few of us make it through. And how little guidance there is around how to become a man. The institutions which raised me - church, school, HipHop - each had their own contradictory instructions, which left me not knowing what to think or believe. There’s that saying that goes “no matter where you go, there you are.” And at some point, after all the avoiding, self medicating, and self deception, all I had left was myself. This is what this show is about, - that inner journey of maturation, where one must confront all that has been holding them back, in order to find all they are meant to be. I believe we are each a piece of one cosmic puzzle. And that by becoming our truest selves we can be that missing piece for others. This show is about the search for peace, which for too long had been missing, even from me. It is my hope that in sharing my piece, others may find the shape and place of their own.