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This gelatin silver print is of a woman walking down a sandy path covered by trees and surrounded by vegetation. On the photograph are the words: "Square toed and flat-footed you appear as my guardian angel leading me along the dust tracks in the road & back to the meaning of myself." Carrie Mae Weems pairs text and image to evoke the life and spirit of writer Zora Neal Hurston (1891–1960). The photograph comes from a series on Eatonville, Florida, Hurston’s home and the first U.S. town incorporated by black residents. In the image, Weems reenacts the writer’s daily life, suggesting how a place like Eatonville exists in memory and imagination as much as in the land itself.