Today, I was thinking...(#2)
Artist
Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie
(American, Tuskegee-Navajo, born 1954)
Date2010 (printed 2013)
MediumPigment print on poly-satin fabric with metal weight
DimensionsImage: 41 1/8 x 56 9/16 in. (104.5 x 143.7 cm)
Support: 48 x 60 1/4 in. (121.9 x 153 cm)
Support: 48 x 60 1/4 in. (121.9 x 153 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the New Mexico Council on Photography, 2014
Object number2014.3.2
DescriptionA herd of buffalo grazing in middle ground, with mountains, sky, and phases of the moon above, grasses and text below.eMuseum Notes
Using a photograph of buffalo from 1880 as her starting point, the artist uses this iconic creature to explore the history of the American Great Plains and the decimation of its animal, and human, populations by settler populations moving westward at the end of the nineteenth century. Tsinhnahjinnie bathes the grazing herd in the purple light of day’s end, perhaps an indication of the sun setting on their species. The moon unfolds in eight phases above their heads, suspending them in a dream-like place where their presence can never be erased.
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
- landscapes (representations)
- landscapes (environments)
- colonial américain
- colonials
- herdsmen
- hunting
- grasses
- plains
- mountains
- moons
- handwriting
- scripts (writing)
- appropriation
- cloth
- banners
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Diane Rosenblum
2010 (printed 2012)
