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 |date_of_action=July 2018
 |location=University of Kansas (KU), Lawrence, Kansas
-|description_of_content=''Untitled (Flag 2)'' is a piece of public art by a German-born, New York-based artist called Josephine Meckseper. Her work is characterized by employing commercial forms of presentation to display the growing influence of consumer culture on contemporary society. The flag was commissioned by Creative Time through the project "Pledges of Allegiance", which aimed to encourage a sense of community among cultural institutions, in response to the current political climate.
+|description_of_content=''Untitled (Flag 2)'' is a piece of public art by the German-born, New York-based artist  Josephine Meckseper. Her work is characterized by employing commercial forms of presentation to display the growing influence of consumer culture on contemporary society. The flag was commissioned by Creative Time through the project "Pledges of Allegiance", which aimed to encourage a sense of community among cultural institutions, in response to the current political climate.
 The artwork is a collage, containing an image of the United States divided in two, which the artist stated is a reflection of the "deeply polarized country in which a president has openly bragged about harassing women and is withdrawing from the Kyoto protocol and UN Human Rights Council" (Meckseper, July 2018). Also, the black and white stripped sock is symbolic of the "recent imprisonment of immigrant children at the border".