Creativity Gallery
Flatlander: Belonging to The Land is a series by artist John Hitchcock that views and comments on the Great Plains as the epicenter for Plains tribal culture. In the series, Hitchcock utilizes drawing and printmaking processes to convey and layer thoughts about removal, displacement, and belonging. The artist uses distinct imagery, including hybrid animals, repeating 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. The prints combine autobiographical references with direct responses to the intrusive behavior by humans towards nature and other humans.