Based on the place names indigenous people gave the land they inhabited, which almost invariably described featured of the land, producing maps in effect. As opposed to the names colonial invaders imposed. The indigenous names here have been written and erased. Or obscured because their meanings are forgotten.

Katherine Jackson

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Katherine Jackson is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with drawing, glass and light. Her work has been exhibited extensively in galleries, colleges & universities, and public spaces in New York City, elsewhere in the US, Rome, Berlin, and Venice. Two of her large/scale long term public exhibitions celebrated the centennials of two iconic New York structures, the New York Public Library and the Manhattan Bridge. She was awarded a grant to place a 6 month exhibition addressing immigration in NY’s Tenement Museum. A recent installation was included in both the Venice Architectural Biennale 2021, and the Venice Art Biennale 2022. A poet, and onetime professor of literature, her work often includes or is inspired by poetic texts.