Cahokia
2022
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
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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
2023.130.4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sky Hopinka; (Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin); NGA purchase, 2024.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
inscribed by artist on image: who calls me by name as I’m sitting on the grass squinting hard under a harder sun
thinking about how easy it is to be stoic and to be called Nothing. Nothing out of fear
and nothing out of resentment.