Harlem 'Masimba' West is an interdisciplinary archivist, griot, sound artist and tintype photographer from Out South Chicago. They explore rebirth, collective memory, and ancestral veneration at the crossroads of visual and mixed media play. Harlem re-works memories in dedication to Sankofa, sonic communion, and combating black queer erasure. At their center, Harlem is an eldest sibling doing their best to honor the name they momma gave 'em. They are currently an Earthseed Family Archive and Brooklyn Poets Fellow, with poems published in the Chicago Reader & APOGEE journal.