As the daughter of Jamaican ministers who immigrated to Canada, Shantel Miller takes viewers on an intimate and spiritual journey, shedding light on representations of race, gender, and belief systems. As she documents everyday life and shares with us her ordinary surroundings, her re-imagined spaces specifically depict moments of black life. With oil paints and delicate details, she questions authority, existence, and contemplates what it means to be human.

In To Believe, To Be Loved, To Belong, a mother and daughter share an intimate moment of embrace. With saturated colors and a bold palette, the figure's contrasting clothing enforces their sense of intimate and loving embrace, as they gently wrap their arms around each other. A contemplative moment filled with warmth, Miller depicts touching and togetherness as a symbol of unconditional and enduring love, and familial legacy.