Through reading Art Talk with Filmmaker Sky Hopinka By Rebecca Sutton, I learned about Hopinkas medium of choice and his overall ideas about his artmaking process. Hopinka equips video, audio, and archival materials to create films and uses language to emphasize his message. Within his video, he seeks to develop a path of reasoning or logic for the audience to be guided by. After this is created, he questions how he can further make sense of the information he knows about his culture by using experimental elements of film and text to convey personal information without being overt. He reflects on the grammatical and phonetic patterns of Chinuk Wawa, imitating the structure of language to establish a set of boundaries that enhances his concepts of language itself, landscape, identity, mythology, and traditions of the Ho-Chunk Nation. With video, the medium allows him to remain subjective and respect the purpose of these stories and languages by interacting with the matter poetically.
I mainly use oil paint, charcoal, and other two-dimensional mediums in my work. My process starts with an idea or message that I want to send to an audience. Then I begin to consider how this should be conveyed and who exactly my audience is. Since I mainly use images, the work will change somewhat based on my audience's understanding. I try to think of symbols and contexts that will be useful in covertly displaying my ideas and begin to sketch these concepts. Working this way helps me consider the efficacy of my work and helps me organize my thoughts to understand myself better and what I want from a certain project. I look forward to expanding what mediums I use to further emphasize my messages and reach wider audiences differently. Particularly, with three-dimensional works.
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