uses text outlines, performance, info-text, music, found dialogue and internet video clips to explore a range of slang and cant languages of various origins.

refers to New York Drag Ball cant indicating a drag impersonation of Jackie Kenedy (née Bouvier) which is absolutely convincing, ie. real.

In this gif, derived from the video footage, the role of Jackie Kenedy is performed by the artist's husband, novelist William Jackson.

explores two great linguistic traditions; the Polari language of Great Britain and American drag slang from the New York City Balls of the 1970s and 80s.

Polari is the great language of oppression: a coded language to enable LGBT+ people to express themselves whilst avoiding detection as criminalised and demonised homosexuals.

The drag slang of the New York City Ball scene could be regarded as a language of freer expression and reclamation. African and hispanic Americans created the Ball Scene and its attendant language to suit their own particular expressive needs beyond mainstream white drag culture.