Don’t you come crying now, 2014

This is the first public version of an intervention to the Pledge of Allegiance. This work was made with one hundred one-dollar bills placed with pins on the map of Panama. At first Susana recites the Pledge of Allegiance, then she takes the bill and sticks it on the map, then she recites the Pledge again. The work takes on a cyclical character, one hundred bills are placed one hundred times by the artist and the Pledge is recited one hundred times. Susana’s proposal is to create a New Pledge: “My Panamanian land, I swear to God and to my Homeland to love you, respect you, and defend you as a sacred bond with our nation”. The work denounces, through irony, the corruption in the sales of land in Panama and is an invitation to reflect on the role of the human being, in relation to the nation and the environment.