Native Labs

Suburban Bush is from a series of two-dimensional work titled Semiotic Warfare. The series utilizes short, stark, poignant and ironic phrases written in Cherokee syllabary, and a variety of media, to examine postcolonial signifiers that define contemporary geographies, economic markets, political bodies and intercultural intercourse throughout North America. In this work the Cherokee syllabary becomes a transformative medium of Cherokee propagation and cultural/political self-determination. By engaging the viewer, the architecture of a particular space and the broader contexts of a particularized regional geography the work becomes a semiotic vehicle of hemispherical decolonization — physically, politically and cognitively.

Semiotic Warfare: Suburban Bush, 2008
Mixed media (video with sound, automobile paint and acrylic mirror on wood panels), 46″ x 12″. Featured in the exhibition Chaos Theory 9 at Legend City Studios, Phoenix, Arizona. Image courtesy of Jason Grubb, Legend City Studios.

Our Land Your Imagination is a series of multi-channel video installations that examine the impact of the Judeo-Christian Western Scientific World View on the suburban landscapes of America and the Western Hemisphere. The series of work is comprised of reappropriated Youtube videos submitted by users who live within the particular community or region featured in the installation. The videos featured here are in the Phoenix installation, Don’t Turn It Off, There’s Enough Water For Your Dreams.