In his narrative paintings and mixed media works, Bailey decontextualizes the white man’s staged “historic” photographs of Native Americans, samples the work of artists from Europe, the U.S. and Indian Country, and repurposes comic books and advertisements. Bailey juxtaposes those images with landscapes he knows and has imagined, and like the basket makers from his Hoopa Valley home, he weaves the varied strands together. Then he asks his viewer, “whil-xolik: tell me a story.”