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Informed by the history of her ancestors and her own experiences navigating the world as a queer mixed-race Apsáalooke (Crow) woman, Nall’s illustrated poems trace a journey of processing personal, cultural, and creative experiences, working towards a sense of self-understood wholeness. The poems are rooted in memory, family, and the rhythms of everyday life. Her work also engages intergenerational trauma inflicted by assimilative boarding schools, their impact on her people, family, and life. A direct outcome for Nall and her brother was that they were not raised as fluent speakers of the Apsáalooke language, which motivated her to continue speaking, learning, and weaving it into her creations. The book’s handmade paper cover is letterpress printed and beaded using baaluxapíihkuua: one of the first beadwork styles that Nall learned as a child. In Apsáalooke beadwork, the color black is not generally used. Nall’s decision to include it within the pattern carries layered meaning—a nod to the western connotation of mourning associated with the color, and a reflection on what it means to be connected to her identity who has been marked as ‘not Crow enough’ by the tribe’s current enrollment policy which utilizes blood quantum. The illustrations are printed with colors inspired by the palette used in traditional Crow beadwork, and the cover and end pages depict the customary red wool and elk teeth aligned in the pattern used for dúusshile, a style of Apsáalooke women’s regalia. The handmade paper used for the edition’s covers is itself a form of visible mending. It was created from an earlier misprint of the book—shredded, wetted, and reformed anew—its original flaws still present, though now unrecognizable-- Women's Studio Workshop website."},{"label":"Physical Description","value":"36 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm"},{"label":"Format","value":["Artists' books (books)"]},{"label":"Type","value":["Text"]},{"label":"Language","value":"English"},{"label":"Identifier","value":"PS3614.A5765 W43 2025"},{"label":"Digital Collection","value":["Arts and Special Collections Research Center - Artists' Books Gallery"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"},{"label":"Custodian","value":["Baylor University - Arts and Special Collections Research Center"]}],"description":"What does it mean to mend?","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/001350f9-4e56-452e-ac30-ebd49fd142a1/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"fa-bookarts-bkk_ps3614-a5765w43-2025_001","height":2787,"width":3088,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/d2c44903-91dc-4aaf-92e8-3005f20d60ca/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/d2c44903-91dc-4aaf-92e8-3005f20d60ca","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2787,"width":3088},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/001350f9-4e56-452e-ac30-ebd49fd142a1/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/d2c44903-91dc-4aaf-92e8-3005f20d60ca/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/001350f9-4e56-452e-ac30-ebd49fd142a1/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"fa-bookarts-bkk_ps3614-a5765w43-2025_002","height":2787,"width":3110,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/2a1e60fa-526b-402c-90df-ce8a822da7a6/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/2a1e60fa-526b-402c-90df-ce8a822da7a6","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2787,"width":3110},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/001350f9-4e56-452e-ac30-ebd49fd142a1/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/2a1e60fa-526b-402c-90df-ce8a822da7a6/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/001350f9-4e56-452e-ac30-ebd49fd142a1/canvas/_3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"fa-bookarts-bkk_ps3614-a5765w43-2025_003","height":2606,"width":1777,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/d8777ebc-3abe-474f-909e-429c2ca4fce9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/d8777ebc-3abe-474f-909e-429c2ca4fce9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2606,"width":1777},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/001350f9-4e56-452e-ac30-ebd49fd142a1/canvas/_3","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/d8777ebc-3abe-474f-909e-429c2ca4fce9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/d2c44903-91dc-4aaf-92e8-3005f20d60ca/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/digitalcollections-baylor/iiif/logo"}