Mansa works to question the efficacy of political art making, by creating a ritual practice to honor, memorialize, protect, and defend Black Lives from state and extrajudicial violence. Mansa’s assemblage, paintings, and sculptures incorporate commercial materials in a way that subverts their original intent, reimagining them as apotropaic objects. His work incorporates the aesthetic of amalgamation found in grassroots roadside memorials, visionary Southern vernacular sculpture, and the West African practices of nkisi nkondi and bocio sculpture making. Mansa’s intention is to trigger the radical imagination of viewers, encouraging them to subvert the status quo and find socio-political agency in their own communities.