Water into Fire

Water into Fire is a mix of documentation of his performative piece and other scenes In this piece the artist continues his search seen in his earlier works for identity and placement in Canadas multicultural and First Nations arena Longboy outs himself as a First Nations FAG who is living with HIV and abruptly severs attached preconceptions of twospirited peoples forcing the First Nations community to address him rather than the disease In a contemplative and meditative search Longboy recollects how HIVAIDS has affected him and the community around him revealing a strength through loss