Primer for Well Water is an installation and performance that examines the social cleansing and eroding powers of water. Drawing its title from allusions to Robert P. T. Coffins celebration of American Culture in his Primer for America and from Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem Primer for Blacks, the piece takes an interdisciplinary approach to collective and specifically documented identities from Afro American and Euro American inheritance, providing a primer for considering the US’s cultural inheritance. This work is made in collaboration with Justin Randolph Thompson.