The Star-Spangled Banner

While photographing the 472 stations of the New York subway, I kept seeing American flags on train cars: scratched, faded, repaired, stained, half-erased.

They no longer felt like simple symbols. They looked like surfaces under pressure.

In this series, those damaged flags are repeated, isolated and mounted onto fields of yellow, platinum grey and off-white. The result is part image, part object: a portrait of power, erosion, repetition and national unease.