I'd come to see Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera's first solo museum show in the US, Hidden Battles/Hondo Dzakavanzika. As a scholar of African literary histories and archives and how they intersect with visual culture, I find Zvavahera's work particularly powerful. Zvavahera is a prophet who uses the canvas to transform dark dreams into vivid, colourful prayers. Born in Harare in 1985, Zvavahera channels childhood experiences, ancestral presence, and mystical narratives into her paintings. Zvavahera's work matters because it demonstrates how art can navigate the intimate and the ancestral, the personal and the collective.