This digital image was inspired by Oscar Wilde's famous story of hidden corruption, the Picture of Dorian Gray. I happened upon this moss-covered American flag rotting in the woods near my home soon after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. I combined it digitally with several Photoshop-manipulated scan of another found object: a discarded picture frame charred and patinated by a house fire. The pristine Betsy Ross flag wallpaper was created in Illustrator.