The clouds are too dull this time of year. It's late June and I'm full of anger and hate. They think we're trash, they think we're as useless as our garbage buried in their fields turned up under plow, exposed in heavy rain. It makes me angry to think about that. To feel like that. Under plow and over plowed and plowed over by machines dredging and weeding through the hills and the fields and my family and my home. | Forge Project

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians), The clouds are too dull this time of year. It's late June and I'm full of anger and hate. They think we're trash, they think we're as useless as our garbage buried in their fields turned up under plow, exposed in heavy rain. It makes me angry to think about that. To feel like that. Under plow and over plowed and plowed over by machines dredging and weeding through the hills and the fields and my family and my home., 2020. Inkjet with hand-scratched text, 17 × 17 in. (Framed: 18 1/2 × 19 in.). Forge Project Collection, traditional lands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck.