Fog Lights by Nadiyah Ngah D. Windsong

Painting from the private art collection of Nivea Castro.

Nairobi, 1998. MTV. Will Smith’s “Just the Two of Us” filling the living room. And me, ten years old, already knowing that Bill Withers was underneath it — warm and patient, holding the whole thing up. That is my funny superpower: I can hear a song and know immediately what it samples.