Poet and graphic designer Chuan Webster draws inspiration from graffiti, collages, and the visual nature of text. Mr. Webster utilizes these methods to investigate race, specifically the instability of blackness and black subjectivities, geography, memory, and the body. Correspondingly many of these investigations engage the question of absence. Mr. Webster explores how to archive what is missing from the landscape particularly as communities watch in real time neighborhoods once populated with familiar presences, dissolve in the vernacular of redevelopment and its attendant colonial logic. In June 2014, Mr. Webster co-founded Ancestry Books with Verna Wong as both a bookstore and a place-based project that focuses on narratives from indigenous authors and authors of color. Much like his artistic practice, Mr. Webster's work at Ancestry Books has been a means to engage North Minneapolis on the importance of memory, geography and what is absent from official archives.