Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- White plastic flag with metal pole from the "In America: How could this happen..." installation (11/2020). The flag is personalized, "Dr. Choong Hong Kim / 7/29/2020 / We miss you!"
- As COVID-19 deaths spiked in 2020, Suzanne Firstenberg’s public art installation "In America: How could this happen…" memorialized the number of people in the United States who lost their lives to the Corona virus pandemic as of November of 2020. The work (taking up 4 acres of the Washington, DC Armory grounds) represented the magnitude of the loss and also humanized the individual experience. At the time, more than 250,000 people were represented through individual white flags, that together provided a visualization of the pandemic sweeping across the country.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 2020
- Physical Description
- plastic; tyvek; metal; polyvinyl chloride (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 38 cm x 12.5 cm; 14 31/32 in x 4 29/32 in
- Object Name
- commemorative flag
- flag
