Drive By, Drive By

Community-Based Installation | 2023

Drive By, Drive By is a community-centered installation created during a residency with Sidewalk Festival Detroit, in partnership with Canfield Consortium. The work offers a space for collective grieving, reflection, and healing for families impacted by drive-by shootings.

The installation invited participants to bring photographs, memories, and personal reflections to honor loved ones lost to gun violence. Rather than representing trauma visually, the project centered care, ritual, and presence, allowing grief to be acknowledged within a supportive, communal environment.

The work is informed by personal experience. Having lost a family member to a drive-by shooting, I understand the quiet, ongoing weight that violence leaves behind. Drive By, Drive By was created as an offering to communities most affected by gun violence, transforming remembrance into an act of resilience and positioning art as a tool for collective care.

Floral support provided by Flowers for Dreams Detroit.

Soundscape to Freedom- Behind the scenes

Short Film / Process Documentation | 2022

Soundscape to Freedom (Behind the Scenes) is a short film documenting the creative process behind Sounds of Freedom, an EP by musician Eli Fola. The work centers music-making as an act of emotional release and self-definition, capturing freedom as something practiced through sound.

Filmed in Faraway, New York, the project follows moments of experimentation, collaboration, and vulnerability within the studio. Rather than focusing on performance or final output, the film lingers on process—revealing how sound becomes a space for reflection, risk, and expression.

Directed by Kashira Dowridge, the film pairs observational footage with written reflections that consider freedom as both personal and collective. Soundscape to Freedom offers an intimate look at the relationship between sound, process, and creative liberation.

EP: Sounds of Freedom by Eli Fola
Words: Kashira Dowridge