Time Traveler, Norman Akers

Artwork Overview

Norman Akers, artist
Cultural affiliations: Osage
born 1958
Time Traveler, 2010
Where object was made: Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Material/technique: wove paper; stenciling; reduction gum rollup
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 250 x 180 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 13/16 x 7 1/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 415 x 335 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 5/16 x 13 3/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 2012.0036
Not on display

If you wish to reproduce this image, please submit an image request

Images

Label texts

Collection Cards: STEM

Through this print, the artist hopes to encourage people to think about how new technologies influenced the colonization of North and South America. He also wants people to think about the negative effects of colonization, for example, negative stereotypes of groups of people and the removal of Native peoples from their homelands.

New inventions helped sailors set more accurate courses. These tools also made it possible to create more accurate maps. The invention of the Gutenberg printing press in 1440 allowed the mass-production of maps, making them widely available.

Look carefully at the different pictures. What do you see? How do these different images connect to the artist’s questions about the effect of technology on peoples’ lives?

How do you learn about people from different countries and cultures? Where can you find information about people from around the world?

What kinds of technologies have helped us have greater contact with people around the world?

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Access Virtual Exhibition

The silhouette of a standing figure appears over an engraving depicting acts of cannibalism in South America. Colored shapes fill the space, a top spins, and a helix covers a watchful bird. These layered images coexist without any clear hierarchy, creating a non-linear sense of time. How does our knowledge of history and sense of time intersect with our relationship to space?

Brosseau Center for Learning: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Access

The silhouette of a standing figure appears over an engraving depicting acts of cannibalism in South America. Colored shapes fill the space, a top spins, and a helix covers a watchful bird. These layered images coexist without any clear hierarchy, creating a non-linear sense of time. How does our knowledge of history and sense of time intersect with our relationship to space?

Exhibitions