In Flag, issues of development and the impacts of Man are brought to the viewer’s attention by a landscape that has been completely terraced. Such terraces are reminiscent of rice-patties, taro patches, etc. and although are made of only natural components and can be beautiful, are examples of Man’s control over his surroundings. Unlike the cut land, the smoke-like clouds that bellow high up into the sky defy their counterpart with their free and impressionistic style. In the distance blue mountains can be seen, so far away that the viewer is unable to see whether their surface has been altered. A ladder hangs in the foreground, its artificiality more apparent than the rest of the landscape. It leads up to a human figure standing with his suit and briefcase, staring at the single obviously natural element: the koa tree. The tree leans over, bending sadly away from the life giving light that it requires, a very lonely beacon of hope that is at the mercy of its viewer, the businessman. The colors in the piece are primarily composed of the reds, whites and blues that make up the flags of the United States and Hawaii. The lines that make up the terraces become like stripes on a flag that has been warped and pulled down and off of the wall from the symbolic “weight” that it carries. At the bottom of the piece these red lines become small drips of red that not only resemble the “life blood” of the land, but also bring the viewer out of the depths of the landscape and back to the actual flag that stands on the wall before them.