My work explores ideas of indigeneity, the lack of access to quality legal aid, and gender roles and how humans operate within those frameworks. Wood is a medium I use often to discuss my content due to the variety of ways in which I can manipulate its form to meet the ends I desire. Those forms have existed as traditional feminine objects like aprons, skirts, press-on nails, and espadrilles, but have moved into more gender-neutral and utilitarian objects like handbags and tarot cards. Collaging my printed or handmade images onto my wood surfaces has also become standard, giving them a better sense of hardiness so they can be handled without worry. Performance is an important aspect to the activation of a majority of my pieces, manifesting as fashion catalogs, a free “legal aid clinic”, to more mystical, self-describing tarot readings. Humor is also an important part of my work and like most Native people, I take few things seriously and use it as a tool to speak on difficult topics like gender and cultural identity. The lack of legal knowledge and access to quality legal aid is an idea I am interested in, especially the shady characters that offer these “alternative services”. My experience as a paralegal working with native elders and the interactions that I have fostered my interest in connecting directly with participants, which is why a majority of my performance work involves more interpersonal connection during the execution of my “services”. That is where my ersatz, metaphysical organization ‘S.H.I.T.E.’ (The Society of Helpful Individuals Tackling Equality or The Society of Helpful Individuals Taming Esotericism) comes in. They serve as every form of these questionable service providers, their reach spanning the realms of “haute couture”, legal assistance, and most recently expanding into soothsaying.