How does Sky Hopinka use his medium of choice? What inspired him to use video?
- Sky Hopinka's medium of choice is video. He uses video to focus on Indigenous life and culture. Hopinka uses video footage, audio recordings, and archival material to investigate concepts of language, landscapes, mythology, and traditions of the Ho-Chunk Nation. He uses his experimental and fragmentary filming style to explore these topics in depth. He uses visual manipulations and overlays to create a dreamlike and hallucinatory effect in his work, creating a space for an audience’s curiosity and wonder.
What material/medium/process do you use and how? What inspired you to make your work that way?
- The materials and mediums that I like to use are graphite and ink pens. I also loved doing ink work and making dramatic line art inspired by medieval print and the talented Junji Ito. I would first draw what I wanted with graphite pencils, and I would soon lightly erase what I drew to the point I could faintly see it, and then I would start inking the drawing. I use techniques such as cross-hatching to shade. I move the pen away from me because a tattoo artist friend is guiding me and giving advice on how to ink better. What inspires me to work that way is watching comic book/manga artists in their inking process and tattoo artists inking on fake skin, mainly when they use a pen instead of the standard tattoo gun.
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