By age eleven, Lonnie Holley had been kidnapped and separated from his family, beaten by staff at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, arrested, and hit by a car and pronounced brain-dead. Reunited with his mother years later, he learned to cope with the hardship and trauma through music and artistic production. This woodcut is an ode to three supreme forces in Holley’s life: his mother, whom he describes as “queenly” for birthing twenty-seven children; Mother Earth, from whom he gathers discarded materials to produce sculpture, such as Ship’s Obstacles (2013), which is in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco’s collection; and Mother Universe, who sent him the gift of art when he felt the world had abandoned him.