Inini/Ikwe  (Man/Woman)

Singer, Bill Miller (Stockbridge-Munsee) / Hoop Dancer and Actress, Thirza Defoe (Ojibwe-Oneida)

Photographic weave consisting of four 16x20 silver gelatin portraits printed in the darkroom then hand cut to produce two side-by-side images. To create the illusion of kinship, the vertical strips were exchanged between the portraits adding youth to Miller’s portrait and maturity to the face of Thirza Defoe.