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In this photograph, the artist Eyakem Gulilat (right panel) and fellow artist Michael Elizondo Jr. (left panel) flank the land they share—the prairie of what is now known as Oklahoma. Both Gulilat and Elizondo, Jr. wear traditional Ethiopian clothing. Gulilat immigrated to the United States from Ethiopia, and Elizondo, Jr., an enrolled member of the Southern Cheyenne Tribe, is of Kaw and Chumash descent. Their collaboration blurs the lines between photographer and subject to question assumptions about land and belonging and to ask how peoples’ relationships to the land are determined.

ArtistEyakem Gulilat, born 1976
Date2011
MediumArchival pigment print
Dimensions24 x 50 x 2 in.
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.93
ClassificationPhotograph
Provenancepurchased by GAE LLC, Bentonville, AR, 2015 (in conjunction with the 2014 Crystal Bridges exhibition State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now); transferred to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR 2020
On ViewNo
Untitled24 × 50 in.Tennis Ball2.7 in. diameter

This artwork's face covers about 165× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.