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For several years now our neighborhood has had a 4th of July parade. Fire truck/Police cars, old cars, floats, several kids on bikes and plenty of pets. It's such fun to see what a relatively small neighborhood can put together.
The Homestead | Carrollton, TX
Shots from my first trip to Japan in April, 2001. Flags at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine in Kamakura.
30 cm x 30 cm
11.75" x 11.75"
2009 - 2020
mixed paint media on black plexiglass panel
purchase at brucerileygallery.com/products/freak-flag
Freak Flag is painted on a 1/4" opaque black plexiglass panel. The panel is mounted on 1/2" plexiglass spacers.
Freak Flag has multiple paint and resin layers with the finish layer being resin. Freak Flag started as an organic dot pattern on black. A black glaze was applied covering the dots in a self leveling media. The effect of the glaze floats the dots up from a murky depth. The dots are a bit soft around the edges. Sometime later a layer of clear resin was applied. This was done to cover damage in all probability. The painting sat around and got damaged some more until this year I reworked a bunch of small stuff laying around. I just haven't had the energy to sustain an eight foot vision. That will come later. With this painting I feel like I'm taking notes. The title references long haired males of the sixties letting "their freak flags fly". The central animal shape has a waver to it as if it were an early TV screen getting bad reception. It's a ghost of a painting that took eleven years to make.
Flag and church at sunset in Wyandotte, MI. Backlighting of the flag by the sunset gave it an interesting glow.
I saw a photograph of Cub Scouts burning an American flag at a fire station a short while back. They burn the flag, out of respect, when they want to "decommission" it. Though I remembered hearing that flags are burned rather than allowed to touch the ground, the only time I had seen a burning flag was at a protest. It got me thinking about the different intentions around burning a flag and that the mere act of burning a flag is not in and of itself an act of protest.
Many veterans hate it when the flag is burned in protest because they feel that it symbolically destroys everything that they fought for, freedoms they fought to keep for their children and freedoms their fathers fought to keep for them. Others feel that being allowed to burn the flag exemplifies their right to freedom of expression, while others burn flags because they feel the US has turned its back on the freedoms the forefathers envisioned. Whatever the case may be, there are multiple facets to a seemingly singular act.
I wanted to try to capture that complexity in an image. Posterity and history, war and freedom, respect and disdain are important themes when we talk about flag burning. With those themes in mind, I wanted to create an image that could be interpreted in numerous ways. Did I succeed in that? How do you interpret the image? As this is my first composite image, ever, is the image itself technically satisfactory?
Creative Commons Note: This is a composite of other people's photos. I did not take any of these photographs. All the images were licensed as CC Attribution 2.0 permitting derivatives and commercial use, except for one, which permits derivatives but not commercial use. None of the licenses require Share-Alike. The authors are ottoman42, robson2313, katia BR, Jan Tik, Stitch and WenDee.
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Abandoned town, about ten miles from Sisimiut (since the 1950s). Even here, they keep the flag flying.
These flags fly proudly at one of KY's rest stops. A famous man once said " It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." That man was George Washington.
Flags Waving above the Monitronics company headquarters in Farmers Branch (Dallas), Texas.
There is a local veteran's club, where in the window sits their / our "American Flag".
THE; No muss, no fuss, no folding, no clipping it to the line, no raising, or lowering, no keeping it from touching the ground,, (not w/ this appliance)
NO, No; just park the handy, plug-in electric flag, in the window, 'n turn 'er on, & you're golden.
Kind of a paradox for the ole Red, White & Blue.
I'd never seen a neon flag before.
I'd hoped they'd a done some blue neon somehow, not here, not now, not this time.
Flags
Grissom Air Museum
Yes, it WAS windy! At the top of the tower the sustained winds were probably in the 30-40 mph range while gusts were topping 50 mph. It was one heck of a view and well worth the ffort, but I had to go inside the tower to change lenses, and I took off my hat and attached it to my bag strap to keep it from returning to Ohio before me.
Grunge textured flag of Belgium on vintage paper
EDIT 4/22/2013: This grunge flag is now released under a standard Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported. It gives you a lot of freedom to use my work commercially as long as you credit and link back to the same free image from my website, www.freestock.ca