Digital Collage, 2021
1. The four main sections include: England (red, bottom right); Scotland (blue, top right); Wales (yellow, derived from the Welsh coat of arms, bottom left of the centre); and Northern Ireland (red, top left). 2. All four sections are attached together with brown packing tape. This represents the fragile ties between each country within the union. 3. The background of the flag is a textured black surface, which symbolises the basis on which the UK’s economy was built: coal, and the trans-atlantic slave trade. 4. Scotland (top right) is depicted as distant but still attached to the other nations within the union to represent the increasing distance the Scottish government and people have taken from the UK over recent years. 5. The ripped-away portion of the flag in the bottom left represents the repossession and autonomous re-establishment of the Republic of Ireland, due to mismanagement and mistreatment of its people, as well as Irish nationalism movements in the 20th century. 6. The Royal Mail invoice sticker is displayed (left of centre) to continue the aesthetic trend my practice has moved towards. I used the BBC Reith font to fill in the information on the packing label. 7. The yellow sticker above the packing label reads ‘Auspicio Regis/Regina et Senatus Angliae', the slogan from the East India Company coat of arms, modified to include king and queen, to highlight the nation's transition from a colonial power to one of the most socially progressive nations in the world.