Art Critic and Muse Jennifer S. Li discusses the links and individuation between mother and daughter Betye Saar and Alison Saar, both accomplished artists in their own right. Born in Pasadena and receiving her degree in printmaking from UCLA, the assemblage work of legendary American artist Betye Saar (b. 1926)—influenced by Joseph Cornell, mysticism, the fight for Civil Rights and more—uniquely fuses personal history while pushing back against a racist American society. Spending time in her mother’s print studio as a child and frequently making visits to Simon Rhodia’s Watts Towers, Alison Saar’s sculptural language also employs assemblage and uses African diasporic symbols to explore concurrent identities: Black and white; mother, daughter, artist, partner; body and spirit.