what is or what has become (2017)

Map, flag, digital processes, results in looped video

The results of the 2016 elections made me wonder if the USA became what it was after the election or was already that – a country with distorted ideals and conflicting desires.
This push/pull made me want to take the USA’s shape (map) and symbol (flag), combine, and obliterate them into a representation that is somewhat recognizable but not without disruption. Persistence of vision is here used to create the illusion of an ever-changing country, for better or worse.