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In a conversation between Smith and Whitney director Adam Weinberg, the pair describe a tenet of Smiths art as the act of changing nouns to verbs. In other words, Smiths art aims to shift the role of Indigenous people as subjects that are mapped, or are the target of imperialist abstractions like defined frontiers, to that of mapmakers themselves. Smiths mixed-media War-Torn Dress (2002) most overtly highlights the distinctions between the mapped and the mapmakers. ....