I built this giant American Flag with a lot of help from friends and family between 2006-2010. Primarily, I brought the flag to parks; people would play with it, it would rip, and then everyone would work on mending it together. While I was working on the flag project, I thought about the flag as a symbol for the commons. I tried to use the collective repair of this object as a way to think more about how we might make the politic we live in more like the politic we hope to live in.