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An American flag on a black pole. The flag is mostly missing, with only the top blue portion with white stars and two of the beginning stripes of red and white remaining on the pole. The two stripes and blue portion of the flag have been sewn together to create a COVID mask.
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My Body, My Choice

The themes of my creativity during the pandemic were domestic spaces and objects, revisiting unresolved works, and protest. During COVID-19, I spent much of my time when I was not at work producing works at home for my artist-in-residence group exhibition in October of 2020.

I spent a lot of the early days of the pandemic learning how to sew on sewing machines borrowed from two workplaces and sewing fabric face masks. I had two retired U.S. Flags that were waiting to be turned into artwork, and I was inspired to turn the field of blue into a face mask, and took the stripes from the flag to weave into a chess board. I titled the flag mask "My Body, My Choice" out of irony of the usage of that argument to argue against wearing masks during the pandemic. I was working as a gallery attendant at the World Chess Hall of Fame during the height of the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter Protests, and decided to needle-felt a chess set for the Pieces vs. Pawns chess variant as a representation of the strength of protest. This piece is titled "Freedom of Assembly".