I started sewing flags and flying them outside my front door at the beginning of September 2020. The political news and shifts in our world have been daily and jarring: wildfires destroying California, Breonna Taylor’s murderers were acquitted, the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a painful and divisive presidential election season, the president contracting and falling ill with the coronavirus, Amy Coney Barrett being confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice two weeks prior to the presidential election, and now democracy is under threat with many Republicans not recognizing Joe Biden as the President-elect. As I write this, on Friday, November 13, 2020, 10,728,000 people in the US have been infected with coronavirus. These flags bear witness to my emotional responses to the events we have collectively experienced in this era. In November 2020, the flags were displayed together at Public Storage, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and from July-August 2021 they were exhibited in Slow Burn at the Weston Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
