Existing comment:
This was a visiting art installation taking advantage of the In America installation. This was supposed to be a 9/11 tribute with world flags done in white.
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Aaron Fein
Charlottesville VA United States
http://www.aaronfein.com
Statement of Work
On September 11th 2001, as New York's twin mountains of concrete and steel came crumbling down, individuals rallied around an even more enduing symbol for comfort: Our national flag."These colors don't run." We said.The truth is -- with time -- they did. Perhaps not in our hearts and minds. But before our very eyes.With time, the flags we affixed to our bumpers and our windows relinquished their colors, red and blue, to the agents of light, moisture and air. Fading imperceptibly and yet undeniably, to white."What happens when our flags fade completely to white?"What will they say to us?What will they say about us?This project entitled White Flags offers one possible answer to these questions.White Flags is a growing installation of 192 flags -- one for each member state of the United Nations -- rendered entirely in white. Hanging together in monochrome, the idealized emblems of stripes, stars, crescents, suns, animals -- all of the national symbols that define us and demarcate us -- begin to yield to the collective as a shared language and history. Gently rotating in the light, varying in translucency, the silhouettes of nations, large and small, rich and poor, old and new, fade away. White Flags suggests a time when our similarities might overshadow our differences; a day when we might all be united as one. |