Digital manipulation through iPhone photography apps constructs this triptych examining how American West mythology silences Indigenous histories. The left panel abstracts a cowboy figure into spectral red and black forms with unsettling green highlights—not heroic but ghostly propaganda. Center: a pale, doll-like face gestures for silence, representing both childhood indoctrination through simplified “cowboys and Indians” narratives and institutional silencing of Indigenous trauma. Right: a teepee dissolves into visual noise and bleeding red, evoking cultural erasure through settler violence.

The title references both children’s role-playing games teaching colonial mythology and the conspiracy of silence around historical atrocities. Visual decay—scratches, overlays, degraded pixels—mirrors how memory and truth erode when transmitted incompletely. The triptych format ironically positions these subjects in a sacred frame that refuses resolution.

Essay written: November 2025