Somers' practice is informed by the legacy of colonial history in Zimbabwe, and how it continues to manipulate aesthetic values. Her hand-built ceramic sculptures combine Zimbabwean traditions and materials such as weaving, wax fabric, and granite stone with new materials and social commentary, as a way of reflecting on the fraught relationship between past and present.

'Fruits of our Forefathers' is a large glazed stoneware vessel that is partially covered with printed waxed cotton fabric, encircled by hands holding cherries. Somers says of the work:

"The cherry was a fruit I had never tasted until I came to the UK, however I grew up in Zimbabwe seeing pictures of cherries in children’s books and desperately wanting to know what they tasted like. I use the cherry as a symbol of British culture in Zimbabwe and the distancing from the reality that surrounded us in Zimbabwe. The false dreams sold as progression and Christian emancipation by the British colonists are still prevalent, and are passed down through generations of remaining privilege, hence the title 'Fruits of our Forefathers'."