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Earthmaker considers the mountain, 2023Inkjet with hand-scratched text and UV laminate, framed
40 × 40 in.
 In Earthmaker considers the mountain, Sky Hopinka overlays a luminous sky with handwritten text from poet Adrian C. Louis’s 1995 poem The Heart’s Hole: “Love the distant roar of the sin you’ve been. Love the distant roar of the skin you’re in.” The words trace the horizon, where image and language commingle. Saturated reds and violets shift into darkness, evoking both intensity and mystery. By threading Louis’s verse into the photograph, Hopinka situates his work within an Indigenous literary lineage, transforming the landscape into a site where memory, poetry, and place converge.

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As Adrian once said, “Love the distant roar of the sin you’ve been. Love the distant roar of the skin you’re in.” The skin we’re in is mottled and marked, seen by the flowers in our eyes.
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