Border Flowers Flag
2008
Dyed cotton, silk fabrics, embroidery threads
56" x 23"
Dyed cotton, silk fabrics, embroidery threads
56" x 23"
What if we had flowers instead of stars in our flag’s canton? Would our ecological gaze be sharpened? Is it possible to stitch a flag that is imbued with the feminine gaze, from ground zero, the kitchen? I embroidered white silk inside the canton and defined four southern state border flowers: the Poppy, Saguaro, Yucca, and Bluebonnet. I over-dyed worn kitchen towels and Mexican Indigenous flower-embroidered tortilla cloths cut into strips, resewn into stripes and created a triangular flag. Symbolically, two American kitchens, unknown to each other, are united in their concern for the American flower eco-system.
