My distant god, 2023Inkjet with hand-scratched text and UV laminate, framed 40×40 in.
My distant god captures billowing clouds stretching across the frame, shifting from darkened masses to luminous whites. Along their contours, etched script drifts like windborne thought: “…and since my troubles could… as the many things that are…”. The scene moves between heaviness and clarity, holding the transitory nature of both weather and reflection. Hopinka treats the sky as a sentient space, approached with reverence, where the unseen is acknowledged through fleeting gestures of light, form, and speech.