Flag, Carceral State of America, 2025

This piece stares back with a grim reality: an American flag choked by chain-link steel. The stars and stripes don’t just fly; they bleed a toxic green, a visceral reminder that our "land of the free" is often bought, sold, and bartered. This fence isn't just metal—it’s the cold weight of a cell door, the agony of a family torn apart, and the darkness that falls when a nation profits from the locking of gates.

The flag here is a captive, a symbol of liberty imprisoned by the very greed it masks. That green stain is the sickness of a system that treats human souls like currency, choosing cages over compassion and ledgers over lives. It forces us to face a shattering truth: that the story of the prisoner is the story of America. By placing bars over the stars, it dares us to feel the suffocating weight of the fence—and then asks us if we have the courage to tear it down.