by Marilyn Wann
It's the 4th of July. The next door neighbors have hung a U.S. flag on their house. It's not on a pole. It dangles vertically, like a pall. I still have the freedom not to hang a flag. I do not hang a U.S. flag. I still have the freedom not to undergo stomach amputation. I say, "No!" to so-called "weight-loss" surgery. This is the flag I made today. It's all white. Like freedom in the U.S. (Credit to Jasper Johns.)
It's the 4th of July. The next door neighbors have hung a U.S. flag on their house. It's not on a pole. It dangles vertically, like a pall. I still have the freedom not to hang a flag. I do not hang a U.S. flag. I still have the freedom not to undergo stomach amputation. I say, "No!" to so-called "weight-loss" surgery. This is the flag I made today. It's all white. Like freedom in the U.S. (Credit to Jasper Johns.)
stomach #13: freedom
materials: staples; white paper plate that previously held a toasted rye bagel with cream cheese, tomato slices, and salt and pepper, from the local bagel shop; woven nylon placemat placed at the seat previously used by the artist's mother, who has been dead for not quite three years; teak table used continuously for more than a half century, for shared family meals in the artist's childhood home, which is seven miles from Disneyland (the "happiest place on earth") and 8.8 miles from the Nixon Library. Photo by Marilyn Wann
materials: staples; white paper plate that previously held a toasted rye bagel with cream cheese, tomato slices, and salt and pepper, from the local bagel shop; woven nylon placemat placed at the seat previously used by the artist's mother, who has been dead for not quite three years; teak table used continuously for more than a half century, for shared family meals in the artist's childhood home, which is seven miles from Disneyland (the "happiest place on earth") and 8.8 miles from the Nixon Library. Photo by Marilyn Wann