“When I Was Smaller Than Myself” is a transmedia project examining how childhood rules and expectations shape Black girlhood into adulthood. Centering shared stories from Black women, the work traces how early instruction can become internalized as silence, restraint, and self-surveillance. Through interactive, spatial, and digital forms, the project invites viewers to confront inherited demands, reflect on what no longer serves them, and reframe those traces as material for growth, self-definition, and becoming. In collaboration with Nakayla Johnson.