A personal endeavour to connect with the Appalachian region Facun now calls home. As a person of colour, he defines his community through personal experience, diverging from the stereotypes of race, religion, gender and politics often attached to the region by outsiders. His images hint at life as it once was, the hyperrealism of what it is today and the uncertainty of what it will become in the coal-mining boomtowns of bygone days. In these rural, isolated foothills pocked with poverty, a heritage of hospitality, not hate, is an unspoken psalm.