Wake Up ( print)

Wake Up

Archival Fine Art Print on 100% Cotton Rag Paper | Reproduced from the original 36 × 48 in oil on canvas,2025

Print of the original painting, winner of 3rd place in 2D art at the Eiteljorg Indian Market, 2025

Wake Up is a symbolic work that confronts the illusion of American exceptionalism in an age defined by artificial intelligence, climate crisis, and mass surveillance. This archival print reproduces the original oil painting with exceptional color depth and fine detail.

The Composition
Mount Rushmore looms in the background, but the carved presidential faces are gone. In their place, four masked figures stare out through mirrored lenses. They represent corporate power, government authority, the tech industry, and media control. In their reflective surfaces, a world burns, is watched, and unravels. The gas masks conceal humanity itself, reminding us that those who shape our reality so often hide their identities while doing it. Matrix-like symbols weave through the scene, evoking AI’s coded influence and the distortion of truth.

The Land Remembers
Before it was Mount Rushmore, the mountain was known to the Lakota as The Six Grandfathers, a sacred place violently taken and renamed as part of a broader effort to erase Indigenous presence and history. Beneath the painting’s imagery of collapse runs this deeper truth: the monument is built on a story that was buried, not resolved.

A Gesture of Hope
Amid the imagery of decay, the final figure on the right raises a hand to halt the bullets, a symbolic act to stop destruction and death. It is the painting’s pivotal moment, and its quiet argument that resistance is still possible.

Warning and Invitation
Wake Up is both a warning and an invitation. It asks whether we will remain passive within the illusion, or find the courage, individually and collectively, to stand, resist, and awaken.

About the Print

Each print is produced as an archival pigment (giclée) print on 100% cotton rag paper, an acid-free, lignin-free surface with a soft, matte texture favored by museums and galleries. Pigment-based inks capture the rich tones and brushwork of the original oil painting and are rated for [75+ / 100+] years of fade resistance when displayed properly. Each print is [hand-signed and numbered / signed] by the artist and arrives with a certificate of authenticity.

Details

• Medium: Archival pigment (giclée) print
• Paper: 100% cotton rag, [weight in gsm, e.g., 310 gsm], [finish: matte / smooth], acid-free
• Inks: Archival pigment inks
• Sizes available:  12 × 16 / 18 × 24 / 24 × 32   in
• Edition:  open edition
• Margins: White border of X in for framing
• Based on: Original oil painting, 36 × 48 in, winner of 3rd place in 2D art , 2025
• Framing: Unframed, ships flat or rolled in a tube
• Ships: Professionally packed in protective materials, tracked and insured

Care and Display

Frame under UV-protective glass or glass of choice with acid-free matting, and avoid direct sunlight and high humidity. Handle by the edges with clean hands. Properly framed, an archival cotton rag print will hold its color and integrity for generations.

Who It’s For

Collectors who want to own the image at an accessible price; students and educators; supporters of Indigenous truth-telling; and anyone furnishing a home, office, classroom, or gallery with a piece that starts conversations. Own the original? The 36 × 48 oil on canvas is [available / sold]. Check the shop or email Hello@leanaasher.com