Flags For Helen, part of a series of flags for people
These designs for flags commemorate private events rather than
the official national occasions for which flags seem the natural
expression of collective emotion.
I asked Helen, the first of a proposed series of people I want
to contact for this project, to describe the personal events in
her life for which she might wave a flag, including those events
for which she would want to fly a flag at half-mast to signify her
loss and pain.
The resulting flag designs do not codify Helen's loves and losses
into heraldic forms but take their form directly from the words
describing the events being commemorated.
