Boz Deseo Garden (they/them/it/its, b. 1997) is an artist and theorist whose practice works within the semiotic, cinematic, and psychoanalytical impasses articulated by Afropessimist thought. Garden’s analytic studies the Slave as the unthought heuristic for signification, mattering, and the drive as such. Using photography, video, sculpture, and writing, Garden disputes the conceptual allures of freedom and agency by tracing their investments in the anti-production of their negations. They are an MFA Candidate in New Genres at the University of California, Los Angeles.