For the October 2019 edition of BLINK, this intervention reconnects Cincinnati with a figure whose national significance was rooted in the city's own history. John Mercer Langston—abolitionist, educator, lawyer, the first Black congressman elected from Virginia and founding dean of Howard Law—spent formative years in Cincinnati, where he pursued his education before helping shape the legal and political institutions that emerged after the Civil War. By carving Langston's portrait directly into an existing wall in Over-the-Rhine, Vhils shifted attention from commemoration through monument to remembrance embedded within the city's material fabric. The subtractive process echoes the work of historical recovery itself, bringing renewed visibility to a life whose influence extended far beyond the place where it began. Installed in a neighbourhood undergoing continual transformation, the work proposes public art as a means of restoring overlooked histories to Over-the-Rhine.