Cahokia

2022

Sky Hopinka

Associated Names
Sky Hopinka

Artist, Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, born 1984

This photograph shows a view of the horizon during sunset or sunrise, with the sun casting a warm reddish-orange glow behind a dark line of silhouetted trees. The horizon is in the center, with a pale purple sky above the dark ground. Closer to us appears to be a grassy field partially lit by the sun's light. On the left, white, handwritten text is visible over the grass.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    inkjet print with hand-etched text

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 101.6 × 101.6 cm (40 × 40 in.)
    framed: 105.41 × 105.41 × 4.76 cm (41 1/2 × 41 1/2 × 1 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.130.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sky Hopinka; (Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin); NGA purchase, 2024.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

inscribed by artist into print surface: Who calls me by name as I’m sitting on grass? Squinting hard under a harder sun thinking how easy it is to be stoic and to be called nothing, nothing out of fear and nothing out of resentment.

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