Postcolonial Love Poem . Visible Mending Transfers

In Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz writes about water as something that is not separate from us, but part of us. I think about that a lot when I look at the American flag. The flag tells a story about states and borders: fifty stars for fifty states, thirteen stripes for the original colonies. But it doesn’t tell us much about the rivers, land, ecosystems, or Native nations that existed long before those borders and still sustain life now. We wanted to imagine a different kind of symbol. One that feels less about ownership and control, and more about connection, movement, and life itself. We’re trading stars and stripes for galaxies and rivers.

Each transfer cut-out is 4.25" by 5.5".