John Hitchcock Prints
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2017 Editions
All prints are screen prints with additional handwork done by the artist. (all works are 22"x30" Horizontal or 30"x22" vertical) All prints $1,000.00
Flatlander Series / 2017
Flatlander: Belonging to The Land
Artist Statement
The Comanche word “Kaku” can be translated to mean grandmother. My Kaku, Peggy Joy “Pohoxicut” Reid, was a beadwork artist, tribal singer, and attended intertribal gatherings nation wide. When I was a child, my Kaku ask me to design floral patterns and geometric shapes for her beadwork designs. This is how I learned how to draw and understand my and my peoples relationship to the land.
Flatlander: Belonging to The Land is a visual comment on crossing over, exploration, and viewing the Great Plains as the epicenter for Plains tribal culture. In the Flatlander: Belonging to The Land series, I utilize drawing and printmaking processes to convey personal symbols and layers of thoughts about removal, displacement and belonging. I use a combination of imagery including hybrid animals, repeat patterns, geometric shapes, biological diagrams, symbols from nature, and military weaponry to explore notions of transformation, death, rebirth, nature, technology, sustenance, renewal, sustainability, shelter, memory, travel and life cycles. These artworks are a mixture of autobiographical references with direct responses to the intrusive behavior by humans towards nature and other humans.
I create mythological hybrid creatures by combining large mammals from the Great Plains (buffalo, wolf, boar, deer, elk); woodland animals (wolf, fox, bear, moose), and military weaponry (tanks and helicopters). Many of these images are interpretations of stories told by my extended family, influenced by nature, and are visual responses to the urban environment. The diagrams, fractured targets, and patterns represent how contemporary society attempts to provide answers by analyzing cultures. The imagery in these artworks act as a metaphor for human behavior and cycles of life.
Artist Statement
The Comanche word “Kaku” can be translated to mean grandmother. My Kaku, Peggy Joy “Pohoxicut” Reid, was a beadwork artist, tribal singer, and attended intertribal gatherings nation wide. When I was a child, my Kaku ask me to design floral patterns and geometric shapes for her beadwork designs. This is how I learned how to draw and understand my and my peoples relationship to the land.
Flatlander: Belonging to The Land is a visual comment on crossing over, exploration, and viewing the Great Plains as the epicenter for Plains tribal culture. In the Flatlander: Belonging to The Land series, I utilize drawing and printmaking processes to convey personal symbols and layers of thoughts about removal, displacement and belonging. I use a combination of imagery including hybrid animals, repeat patterns, geometric shapes, biological diagrams, symbols from nature, and military weaponry to explore notions of transformation, death, rebirth, nature, technology, sustenance, renewal, sustainability, shelter, memory, travel and life cycles. These artworks are a mixture of autobiographical references with direct responses to the intrusive behavior by humans towards nature and other humans.
I create mythological hybrid creatures by combining large mammals from the Great Plains (buffalo, wolf, boar, deer, elk); woodland animals (wolf, fox, bear, moose), and military weaponry (tanks and helicopters). Many of these images are interpretations of stories told by my extended family, influenced by nature, and are visual responses to the urban environment. The diagrams, fractured targets, and patterns represent how contemporary society attempts to provide answers by analyzing cultures. The imagery in these artworks act as a metaphor for human behavior and cycles of life.
