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Memorial Flags, 2020
Nearly 700,000 flags dot the National Mall, paying somber tribute to the lives lost to COVID-19 in the United States. The flags in this display case are from Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's installation on the same topic last fall, "In America How Could This Happen..."
Then, she needed far fewer flags, around 270,000, to mark the deaths.
"A flag will ripple in the wind and interact with the environment. And the mass of them would really look like what it really was at the time: A FLAG OF SURRENDER."
-- Artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, 2020 |