Jarrett Key's work addresses their concerns about the state of their freedom in America. By excavating lost stories and objects from their family's oral history in rural Alabama, Key explores their journey to understanding freedom through three lenses: survival, transformation, and celebration. Key's work emphasizes multiple threads critical to weaving together the legacies and pressures historicized on the Black body, such as Key's own quotidian life realities and the fantastical escapes and futures they conjure. Key's work seeks to criticize the historical circumstances that have sown the seeds of America's current social and economic problems.