As an artist and filmmaker, Mason Richards‚ creative and artistic intentions tend to center around themes of identity and belongingness. He was born in Guyana, South America, and like most Guyanese people, he left Guyana at an early age with his family in pursuit of a better life abroad: „It’s always fascinating to me that Guyana can look and feel foreign to me in many ways. Many of us from the Caribbean diaspora, as well as other immigrants to foreign countries, struggle with a concept of “trans-national” identities – meaning that we are from another country, however, we’ve immigrated to the United States where we’ve adapted to a new, dominant culture and way of life. With that, there are times when we as immigrants feel a sense of “dis-connect,” to our present culture while maintaining a sense of nostalgia for our place of birth. For immigrants, this can be a feeling like we have left something behind, back “home”, whether it’s family, our cultural identity, or simply our childhood memories.“ In his current film installation project, he wishes to explore the dis-connect between the cultural identity by focusing on the natural elements that connects him to his birth country: Water.