95 Flags and Counting, 2007 to Present
95 Flags & Counting…,2007
Acrylic on cardboard
Dimensions variable
$5,000
[50% of sale will be donated to The Merritt Center – A retreat center for returning combat soldiers dedicated to individual and group renewal and to release the experience of war, creating the dream of a new life.]
95 Flags & Counting… is an ongoing project by Sherrie Medina. Since the beginning of the Iraq War, 95 Arizonan soldiers have died. Medina’s work gives form to that loss. Each cardboard block is a meditation on a lost soldier’s life—an elegy to the victims of this war. Her flags, unfurled or limply hanging from a pole, are metaphors for the arrested moment of death. The empty blocks remind the viewer of their absence and loss. Whether attached to the side of a house or painted on a moving vehicle, this patriotic symbol is ubiquitous, and as pervasive and omnipresent as the absence of those now deceased.
Acrylic on cardboard
Dimensions variable
$5,000
[50% of sale will be donated to The Merritt Center – A retreat center for returning combat soldiers dedicated to individual and group renewal and to release the experience of war, creating the dream of a new life.]
95 Flags & Counting… is an ongoing project by Sherrie Medina. Since the beginning of the Iraq War, 95 Arizonan soldiers have died. Medina’s work gives form to that loss. Each cardboard block is a meditation on a lost soldier’s life—an elegy to the victims of this war. Her flags, unfurled or limply hanging from a pole, are metaphors for the arrested moment of death. The empty blocks remind the viewer of their absence and loss. Whether attached to the side of a house or painted on a moving vehicle, this patriotic symbol is ubiquitous, and as pervasive and omnipresent as the absence of those now deceased.
