A ceiling light, a stretch of wall, the curve of a metal headboard, a glow of reflected daylight. In this four-part series, Benj4min photographs quiet details in the bedroom of his Harlem apartment while lying in bed dreaming, reflecting, and performing thankfulness.

Created at a pivotal moment, shortly after stabilizing from a long period of housing uncertainty, the series marks a shift from precarity to stability. The title, drawn from the artist’s final email to building management, signals the close of a long correspondence and the beginning of a new chapter. Each photograph bears a single-word title — "edge," "hold," "hit," "home" — gesturing toward states of peace, grounding, impact, and desire.

Each image is rotated from its original orientation, a deliberate choice that disrupts its literal function and pulls it toward abstraction. This reorientation reflects both the perspective of lying in bed and the larger act of recalibration.

Subtly tinted with the artist’s signature powder pink, the photographs become meditations on survival, self-determination, and the quiet transformation that occurs when life settles into new form.

Through restraint of form and expansiveness of meaning, I Trust We Can Move Forward Smoothly From Here captures not only the physicality of a home, but also the emotional architecture of moving through struggle into trust, and finally, into possibility.