"Sip Sumthing" is a powerful reflection on an era in American history defined by segregation, racism, and the denial of basic rights and dignity to Black Americans. The piece depicts a Black woman drinking from a water fountain designated “White Only,” a simple act that, in its time, represented defiance against a system designed to dictate where she could go, where she could eat, where she could drink, and how she was expected to exist in society.

Yet this piece is as much about resilience as it is resistance. She stands beautifully dressed in her Sunday best, her hair carefully done and a timepiece on her wrist, poised, confident, and intentional. She refuses to allow the restrictions placed around her to define the woman within them. Sip Sumthing honors the strength of those who persevered, remained dignified, and challenged the boundaries imposed upon them, sometimes through movements, sometimes through marches, and sometimes through an act as simple and powerful as taking a sip.