Self-Taught Artist Thornton Dial

Don't Matter How Raggly the Flag, It Still Got to Tie Us Together, 2003
In a work that Dial created just after the start of the Iraq war, the flag becomes a tangled battlefield. Embedded within its folds is the remnant of a can of motor oil, a reminder of the resource always at the heart of American policy choices in the Middle East.

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