Artist Gary Hill (born 1951) met Indigenous American Martin Cothren (1960-2016) from the Yakama Indian Reservation while looking for subjects for his 1996 video installation Viewer. Their encounter slowly morphed into an ambivalent friendship of otherness-a twenty-year saga encompassing creative exchange and a myriad of extreme emotions and states of mind ; a scribbled journey through serial frustration, generosity, paranoia, forgiveness, and deep sorrow. Perhaps the meaningfulness of their connection is an unspoken one.

Nevertheless, the encounter herein becomes a vaguely linear play with living memory constructing a fluctuating space of drawings and hand written letters intercut with prose in which these two particular human beings continue to manifest kinship.