Growing up, Lezley Saar often felt like an outsider. Her mother, Betye Saar, is black and her father is white. Lezley didn’t feel like she fit into black or white culture. She started making art about people who feel like outcasts. In Unnamed—The Yellow Wallpaper, Lezley shares a narrative from a short story about a girl who is unwell and forced into isolation. Lezley explores race and racism through her art. In a 1999 work, she layers book covers and paper scraps to illustrate the story of Harriet Hemings, one of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved children. Lezley is also interested in science and humans’ place in the universe. In Not Born Under a Rhyming Planet, she plays with scale, rendering skin cells and human figures floating in space.