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.
2020
Artist, Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, born 1984
Artwork overview
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Medium
inkjet print with hand-etched text
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Credit Line
Gift of Funds from Sharon Percy Rockefeller and Senator John Davison Rockefeller IV
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 43.6 × 42.4 cm (17 3/16 × 16 11/16 in.)
framed: 47.5 × 46.5 × 4.7 cm (18 11/16 × 18 5/16 × 1 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2023.99.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sky Hopinka; NGA purchase (through The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI), 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by artist, around sky in image, etched into print surface: 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.