The American Flag ~ 2006

The American Flag ~ 2006

The American Flag is a project about recontextualizing an archive.  The piece is a book shelf which treats the American Flag as an archive, dealing with the history of the colonization of Native American land.  The book shelf has thirteen partitions, representing the thirteen stripes and colonies, with fifty books representing the stars.  The books are checked out form various public libraries on topics dealing with the Native American displacement, further adding to the consumption of knowledge and destruction.