"unstable ground" was created for the Watermark Art Center, Miikanan Gallery's exhibit, Aanikoosijigaade: It Is Linked, spring of 2023. The exhibit placed two artists in dialogue: collage artist and cultural administrator Joan Kauppi, a grandmother whose work had never been on display before, and me, a twentysomething who had been in the art world for over a decade. After the Miikanan it went on tour with Giizhigen Arts Incubator throughout Anishinaabewaki before following me to Baltimore City, where it will be screened as part of the inaugural Cinema Suds programming at Peabody Heights Brewery on January 16, 2025. 

"Gag Order" began as an ambitious full-fledged musical play about the power dynamics between Native artists, models, writers, and the mainstream overculture/establishment of Hollywood and its offshoots. I had stopped for a short visit with a friend of mine who is getting well known/famous in the film industry and we spoke quickly, quietly about various secrets. I have entered into this dynamic before, that of the designated confidante and secret-keeper, the one who knows things. Unlike Game of Thrones, however, this hasn't awarded me any special power, no privilege has been granted. Since moving to Baltimore, I've found a beautiful, nascent film industry, seeped in communalism, transparency, and shared resources. "Gag Order" was never finished. I submitted the original scene to the mostly-Baltimore "rag," Unstaged, where it can be read to you in the lowest of the lo-fi here.