Harjo views his growing body of work as an ongoing conversation with how “Native art has been shackled to history by a false vision of what Native people are through the settler gaze of our current reality. We are diverse, we are dark, we are beautiful; and so is our artwork.”
Harjo’s film featuring Joy Harjo reading her poem on her land is made specifically for ArtNow 2023: The Soul Is a Wanderer.
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