This acrylic and red clay painting is a play on the word destiny and our contemporary operations regarding the digital and virtual experience as existence. My daughter, named Destini, was the model for this painting. It gives a nod to Andrew Wyeth’s iconic painting, Christina’s World, in which a young woman with a birth defect that leaves her unable to walk, lies in a field with a house in the distance. The piece relays a sense of beauty and hopelessness against the landscape. In Wyeth’s painting, we witness a lack of access in terms of mobility for Christina to get to the house/home without the aid of someone else. In my work, I dance with the idea of access by way of proxy, to enter the larger art world (represented in the painting as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) as a southern based artist. The digital age is constructing a new landscape, a more accessible framework. It opens up alternative connections of agency . My destiny has a different perspective, a contrasting gaze toward an outcome beyond the original barriers and intent of institutions to serve as gatekeepers to the creative excellence of others.