Shaper of God,  American Artist’s (2022 Awardee) Creative Capital project premiere, culminates a multi-year and multidisciplinary project inspired by the life and work of science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Deriving its title from an epitaph found in a religious text written by Lauren Oya Olamina, the protagonist of Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993), Shaper of God  examines biographical details from Butler’s lived experiences to understand how the radical political possibilities in her fiction were made possible.