Acrylic and hardware on a bleached flag of USA. 132" x 72" x 3" inches.

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During my first deployment, the risk of death was constant—whether from car bombs, mortar attacks, IEDs, or the possibility of being captured. This piece speaks to that reality. It reflects how my potential death—and the deaths of countless other soldiers—are reduced to little more than a footnote, a stain, when measured against the overwhelming profits generated by American capitalism, consumerism, and the business of war.