Mercy Kelly is a Brooklyn-based Black trans visual artist, model, performer, and advocate who isn’t here to be your teachable moment. In BRICKS, Mercy Kelly plays Cassandra, the Matriarch. Mercy’s work focuses on the beauty of fat, femme body performance as liberation. Mercy is passionate about expanding narratives and understandings of what it means to be trans, moving towards re-idealizing the notion of what it means to have a body. Mercy is interested in the ways we map desire, paying particular attention to how hue, color, size, and shape form our deepest longings.