This work is a reflection on how time, life & death, and material practice are interconnected. It stands at six feet and two inches, the same height as the artist, and celebrates their life and ability to create, while also commemorating their existence for when they have passed on—a trace of their presence.
Wright thinks through the trace by beading, that beadwork remains long after after its maker and is a connection to those who have come before.
The accumulation of jingles leaves the viewer with the expectation of sound or activation of the work, but it’s stillness instills the feeling that this happened already and is in the past, that only this flag remains after a brief happening—much like the happening of life and the stillness after.
Installation of this work is a simple lean against the gallery wall, more a suggestion than a proclamation. This is not a nation’s flag being placed on top of a mountain or the surface of the moon, but something more provisional. This lean also suggests a body at rest.