Earthmaker considers the mountain, 2023Inkjet with hand-scratched text and UV laminate, framed
40×40 in.
Earthmaker considers the mountain shows the sun setting over a low horizon, its orange light mirrored in a small pool of water. A dark building shape anchors the right edge, while the sky above carries an extended passage of scratched handwriting: “I think to myself about…”. The title invokes the Ho-Chunk creator Earthmaker, positioning the scene between the earthly and the mythic. Hopinka folds recollection into creation, offering a moment suspended between day’s end and the beginning of another story.