Statement
Hitchcock currently works in multimedia including neon, textiles, printmaking, sound, and video to reclaim narratives of resilience and survival. He uses visual storytelling to understand his relationships to community, land, and culture. Abstract representations, language and intense color reference his Kaku’s (Comanche grandmother’s) beadwork and childhood memories of growing up in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma on Comanche Tribal lands next to the US field artillery military base Ft. Sill. Many of the images are interpretations of stories told by his Kiowa/Comanche grandparents and abstract representations influenced by beadwork and intercultural identities. Embracing contemporary materials and creative practices while paying homage to his ancestors, he put forward a celebratory aesthetic of cultural hybridity and survival.