Free me from this body, my voice can carry only so far. Free me from this body, as I lay on the grass it feels heavy and I can't move. Free me from this body, the color burns brown with dark limbs so tired and missing the weightless breadth of above
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, b. 1984)
Free me from this body, my voice can carry only so far. Free me from this body, as I lay on the grass it feels heavy and I can't move. Free me from this body, the color burns brown with dark limbs so tired and missing the weightless breadth of above
- Date: 2020
- Medium: Inkjet print on Dibond
- Object Dimensions: 17 5/16 x 17 1/2 in. (43.97 x 44.45 cm)
- Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Contemporary Council, 2022.003
- Photo Credit: Jueqian Fang
- Verbal Description: This square composition is a color photograph, but it’s difficult to understand what its subject is; it looks like the photo was taken from an airplane window. The top third of the composition is sky blue. Lining the parameter of this blue trapezoid is a white cursive script reading the title of the artwork. The horizon line is at a slight angle, sloping down to the right. The bottom of the composition is a textured white landscape, likely clouds, punctuated by dark lines throughout.
