Rebuild every region,skin, hair, clothing, backdrop and ground,from cut paper, printed-image and drawn fragments, joined by crisp overlaps in a measured collage rhythm. Use fine pieces near faces and larger shapes across broad fields; retain each material’s color, grain and marks within a shared palette. Redraw faces and figures as assembled shapes, with eyes, nose and mouth formed from a few aligned fragments rather than continuous skin. Animal faces share this construction; objects follow it too. Carry the assembly across the ground and finish with a simple cut-paper border. Keep edges, paper fibers and shallow overlaps tactile. Cancelled style postage stamps in red, white and blue tile together into a flag with canton stamps bearing tiny stars. One stamp corner peels to show gummed backing. No readable postmarks and no lettering.
Light: even collector daylight; palette of stamp red, envelope cream and postmark grey; nerdy, neat, fond.
Square 1:1 frame, centred composition with breathing room on all sides. The standard flag shows exactly thirteen horizontal stripes starting and ending with red and a blue canton with star rows in the upper hoist corner; any interpretive flag stays recognisable and is never torn, burned, defaced or on the ground. No readable text, lettering, slogans or logos anywhere; any people are fictional fully clothed adults with clearly adult proportions and faces. Isolated on a fully transparent background, alpha = 0 everywhere outside the artwork, not white, not coloured, no checkerboard pattern, a real alpha channel; complete and unclipped with a wide transparent margin and a soft semi-transparent contact shadow.
