Medicine for a Nation in Distress- Archival prints
Medicine for a Nation in Distress is a print of an original painting by Ojibwe artist [ARTIST NAME], from the Social Justice and Resilience series. An upside-down American flag, the signal of dire distress, is overlaid with Ojibwe jingle cones, the healing form of the jingle dress tradition, while the stars break free of the blue field. Archival giclée print in 8 × 10, 11 × 14, and 16 × 20 in, with a [½ in] white border for framing.
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Medicine for a Nation in Distress
Archival giclée print on 100% rag paper | [Open edition] | 8 × 10, 11 × 14, 16 × 20 in
Medicine for a Nation in Distress is a print of an original painting, a portrait of a nation in distress. An American flag hangs upside down, the position the U.S. Flag Code reserves for “dire distress.” Across it, Ojibwe jingle cones overlap the stripes and the blue field, and the stars spill past the blue as though they cannot be confined to it.
The jingle cone is a healing form. The jingle dress tradition arose among the Ojibwe during the 1918 influenza pandemic, and the sound of its cones is understood as medicine. Here, the cones also read a second way. Their pointed silhouettes echo the hoods of the Ku Klux Klan, an image of racial terror. The doubled image is deliberate. The painting holds sacred healing and the history of violence in the same shape, calling back to the enslavement of African peoples, the dispossession and destruction of Native peoples, and the ongoing harm to citizens of this country.
The viewer cannot look at one meaning without the other. That is the point. A nation that wants to heal has to look at what it has done, what the people who survived it have carried and still carry, and then choose to listen. In the jingle dress tradition, healing begins with sound.
Part of the artist’s Social Justice and Resilience series, alongside Eco Warriors and Maajtaawin Gizhi-Bimaadizin.
About the Print
Reproduced from the original oil on panel, 16 x 20, 2026. Each print is an archival pigment (giclée) print on 100% rag, acid-free paper, with a ½ in. white border around the image for framing. Prints do not include a certificate of authenticity.
Details
- Print type: [Open edition] archival giclée
- Paper: 100% rag, acid-free, 310 gsm, matte finish
- Ink: archival pigment ink
- Border: [½ in] white border on all sides
- Sizes: 8 × 10, 11 × 14, 16 × 20 in
- Longevity: 100+ years fade resistance
- Framing: Sold unframed. Ships flat or in a protective tube
- Certificate of authenticity: Not included
