Aurora Suryah (b. Baltimore 1996) is a Baltimore-based transdisciplinary artist. Their work centers on the engagement of earth-based pigments, industrial objects, assembled ritual tools, and protein- and cellulose-based fibers to compose 2-D and 3-D works that re-engineer diasporic and folkloric elements and applications of art and craft-making as resistance and collective actualization against the imperial depression of the mind, body, and spirit. Invoking the spirits of their ancestors who believed that roots, rocks, herbs, bones and psalms would free them from colonial imperialism. Aurora uses their work to both ask and answer the question: What does it mean to believe in something, and what are the consequences of it?