Consuelo Jimenez Underwood American, b. 1949

From Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Flags series, this particular rendition features Coatlicue, the ancient Aztec earth goddess. Her face, constructed of two snakes, occupies the top section of the flag and her skirt of snakes flows down past her belly, where the Mexican flag’s eagle and snake rest. On the bottom are a row of her claws. Like many of Jimenez Underwood’s flags, Quatlique-landia mixes elements of the Mexican and U.S. flags together. She explains, “I’m still trying to merge nations, I’m still trying to merge ideas from the past to the now, so we can go to the future with strength and power.”

"The triality of nations is further manifested in Quatlique-landia (2017), as the ghostly image of Aztec goddess Coatlicue seeps through this stitched and embroidered US flag, which was formed over a nylon Mexican flag." Emily Zaiden, "Between the Lines", Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision, Duke University Press, 2022