Art is a form of resistance. Resistance begins in the mind. fabricating a home 'cause you never had one illustrates with essay and poetry Jacquese Armstrong's escape to "ground zero," while colliding with the Western Psychiatric model for mental health from a recent self-appraisal of identity crisis, diagnosed and medicated as schizophrenia, starting a four-decade battle. Drawing on recent ancestral history as metaphor, sometimes experienced as truth, the memoir takes the reader through the inception of incident, the psychiatric labelling she accepted most of her adult life, to epiphanies and breakthrough bringing her home, to herself. Written over a decade, the essays and poetry were literally the ladder she constructed in real time inside the blackest hole to ascend and rediscover Light.