Photo courtesy tasha dougé
Bronx-based conceptual mixed media artist tasha dougé’s rendering of the American flag on display at the Longwood Art Gallery is not a flag at all. In fact, the piece, “This Land is OUR Land,” more closely resembles Fourth of July streamers. Stripes of braided synthetic hair are unraveled and slumped away from their chicken wire anchor, cotton ball stars displaced from their canonical top-left hand mainstay and chicken-wire matrix laid bare. The composition slouches on a gallery stool, its supposed patriotic messaging sterile.
