Home of the Brave
Home of the Brave
Artist
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
(born 1949)
Date2013
MediumWire, silk, fabric, safety pins, and synthetic and natural threads
Dimensions72 × 99 in. (182.9 × 251.5 cm)
ClassificationsTextile
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, Purchased with the Fund for Craft, 2021.24
Accession number
2021.24
On View
On viewLabel TextArtificial flowers, safety pins, and small caution signs pierce interwoven graphic elements from the flags of Mexico and the US, evoking imagery from the border. In the title, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood plays on the lyrics of the US anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” For Underwood, “Living in the borderlands, flags become similar, blurred, often both nations seem the same.”
Flores artificiales, pasadores de seguridad y pequeños letreros de precaución atraviesan elementos gráficos entrelazados de las banderas de México y Estados Unidos, evocando imágenes de la frontera. En el título, Consuelo Jiménez Underwood juega con la letra del himno estadounidense, “La bandera de las barras y las estrellas” (The Star-Spangled Banner). Para Jimenez Underwood, “al vivir en las tierras fronterizas, las banderas empiezan a parecerse, se difuminan, a menudo ambas naciones parecen la misma”.
