Installation view from River Child at Broadway Gallery - Photo by Joerg Lohse
Cowboy Mouth
Companion pieces to the 2-channel video, The Island Weights, these photographs are located in each of the cardinal points and named after the respective Island Weights (being from the north, south, east, and west) from Ho-Chunk mythology. The texts etched on the photographs are taken from the homonymous poem, and title is a nod to Bob Dylan’s Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.
These photographs were taken on an analog medium format camera and a rotary tool was used to etch and scrape text along the borders of the inkjet prints.
Cowboy Mouth 1 (Hą́boguominạ̀gara)
2022
Unique
inkjet with handscratched text and UV laminate
Framed
40 x 40 inches
Cowboy Mouth 2 (Yoiréreginagere)
2022
Unique
inkjet with handscratched text and UV laminate
Framed
40 x 40 inches
Cowboy Mouth 3 (Siniwagúreginągere)
2022
Unique
inkjet with handscratched text and UV laminate
Framed
40 x 40 inches
Cowboy Mouth 4 (Rek’úhuhíra)
2022
Unique
inkjet with handscratched text and UV laminate
Framed
40 x 40 inches