Road to Meskwaki, 2022Inkjet with hand-scratched text and UV laminate, framed
39×39 in.
In Road to Meskwaki, a two-lane road runs straight toward a distant horizon, framed by fields and scattered trees beneath a sky of vivid blue and drifting cumulus. Scratched along the lower edge, Hopinka’s handwriting threads through the view: “…the sun as what we would have called it…”. The photograph grounds itself in a specific route to the Meskwaki Settlement while infusing it with personal geography—where the act of travel is inseparable from memory, lineage, and the continuation of place.