Ego as Flag

Materials: Bamboo slats, string, flock wallpaper

This sculptural maquette explores the idea of identity as performance — the ways in which we project our beliefs, ideals, and personas into the world. The curved bamboo slats form arcs reminiscent of banners caught mid-flight. Interwoven with strips of flock wallpaper, these forms evoke the pageantry of self-image: how we wrap ourselves in ideologies and aesthetics, waving them like banners to define who we are.

The title — Flag as Ego — alludes to the tendency to identify with our symbolic flags so deeply that they become both armor and mask, the crosses to which we nail our sense of self.