Raised on the island of Saint Martin, her art is both conceptual and interdisciplinary, employing installation, photography, and film to explore various themes.
Beginning in the early 2000s, Jack's art has incorporated salt as a motif, connecting members of the African diaspora through the ocean to their roots in Africa.
[2][1] Jack had a summer residency at Big Orbit Gallery in 2004 and her installation SHORE debuted there on 11 September.
The installation employed a 40-foot by 20-foot reflecting pool at the edge of the floor and used projected video, sound, and nylon sails to evoke themes related to memory, the history of Saint Martin, slavery, and the Middle Passage.
[6] Jack is considered an important poet from the Caribbean island of St. Martin, where her nom de plume is Drisana.
[4] Deborah Jack's film fecund memories of sky and salt...the amnesia of a history unrehearsed, still lush... (2022) was acquired by the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, and exhibited in The Days That Build Us (2024), a show organized by PAMMTV, a video art streaming platform, at PAMM.