w/nw Imaginary Flags

[rhl-oregon]

The 3:2 ratio of 35mm resembles the proportions most nations use for their flags--which generally contain abstract or symbolic forms and, less generally, representational forms.

I'll start with an image of lichen and granite. In real life it's a detail of a headstone in the pioneer cemetery. I think of it as a flag for the country of old age.

I didn't ask Jim/Barnwulf if it was OK for me to include the following image from his RFF gallery, but I admire it so I think he won't mind. In it I see some of the cross elements we see in the flags of England, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, etc.--though unlike those flags, there seems to be conflict embodied and acknowledged in this imaginary flag.

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Which among your images could well be the flag of an imaginary country?

 

[lynnb]

maybe this one?

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Ooh I like this idea

Metropolitan Museum (5 of 5) by J. Robert Lennon, on Flickr

Henball by J. Robert Lennon, on Flickr

Scan-081223-0059 by J. Robert Lennon, on Flickr

 

[rhl-oregon]

Delightful color and patterns. No doubt their citizens would have more gusto, idealism, civic pride etc. than the nations where everything is summed up in black and white ;-) Well, not counting Robert's country of the sleeping hen.

 

[f16sunshine]

Genius thread idea. I'll post a few tonight. 🙂
Some cool flags here!

 

[rhl-oregon]

Promise duly noted, Andy!

What about you other 3:2 abstractionists, pattern-seekers, color-field lovers?

 

[daveleo]

Very cool idea, Robert.
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[barnwulf]

Thank you Robert for including my first contribution to this thread. I am honored.

 

[burancap]

This is a GREAT thread!!! What a spark to a gloomy, rainy couple of weeks.

 

[f16sunshine]

A couple less abstract ones to start with.

non omnis morior by Adnan, on Flickr

 

[f16sunshine]

Lincoln Park by Adnan, on Flickr

 

[f16sunshine]

and then more abstract

colonizing by Adnan, on Flickr

 

[lbstollar]

 

[lynnb]

by lynnb on flickr

 

[rhl-oregon]

The second V-themed flag! Victory, vendetta? Vater?
(I'd live in a nation that elevated water to such flag status.)

 

[Joao]

Imaginary, you said ?

 

[lbstollar]

Detail from University of Michigan Football Field, Canon ELPH 330

Detail from University of Michigan Football Field, Canon ELPH 330

 

[lbstollar]

Poster Board in Art Store

Poster Board in Art Store

 

[j.scooter]

This one made me laugh.
I could just see this pissed off chicken as someone's flag 🙂🙂

Henball by J. Robert Lennon, on Flickr

 

[rhl-oregon]

I'm too old for this country, but not too worn