Photograph by Bill Apton.
Home of the Brave
Artificial flowers, safety pins, and small caution signs pierce interwoven graphic elements from the flags of Mexico and the US, evoking imagery from the border. In the title, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood plays on the lyrics of the US anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” For Underwood, “Living in the borderlands, flags become similar, blurred, often both nations seem the same.”
ArtistConsuelo Jimenez Underwood, Indigenous Californian, Wixárikame, born 1949
Date2013
MediumWire, silk, fabric, safety pins, and synthetic and natural threads
Dimensions72 x 99 in. (182.9 x 251.5 cm)
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, Purchased with the Fund for Craft, 2021.24
ClassificationTextile
ProvenanceArtist; purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2021
On ViewNo
This artwork's face covers about 6.6× the area of a standard movie poster.Drawn to the same scale.