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. Shantel Miller's I Have Authority uses color and body language to explore notions of personhood within societal constructs of identity. The title operates as a declarative statement that implicates power relations within broader social contexts.