Landing

Norman Akers

Cultural affiliations: Osage

born 1958

Landing, 2019

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: photopolymer plate relief print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 378 x 288 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 14 7/8 x 11 5/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 535 x 415 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 21 1/16 x 16 5/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in

Credit line: Gift of the Print Society of Greater Kansas City

Accession number: 2020.0014

Not on display

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Spencer Museum of Art Highlights

In his densely layered prints, Norman Akers challenges the idea of borders and boundaries. By playfully placing America’s founding fathers in spaceships as “aliens,” Akers emphasizes how colonizers invade space. His work connects the mistreatment of Indigenous peoples in North America to contemporary narratives about illegal immigrants, seeking solidarity rather than treating the situations as two separate issues. The two hands playing cat’s cradle—a children’s game using string—form a chain link fence, showing how borders are human-made.