Malik’s artwork explores the African-American historical and religious experience. His overarching intent is to “Create artwork that examines relationships between history’s truths, unearthed by contemporary scholars of African descent, and its detrimental, but more accepted falsehoods, perpetuated for centuries—this falsification of history is so pervasive, it remains the dominant historical narrative taught in schools and provided in the media”. He promotes awareness of these historical inaccuracies.