Interpreter

In a darkened room, cut-out pages from a paperback copy of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown, mostly covered with graphite, lie on a table. Only individual words and letters remain legible, constituting an individual poem on each page. Questions of translation and interpretation are raised in the poems, interrogating the role of the white historian who writes Indigenous history. Whose story is being edited here? The graphite surfaces become distillations of time, mini-topographies.