Our contribution was a 2012 Grenade Calendar nestled inside a handmade box lined with leftover Ralph Lauren fabric swatches, then stitched with care. Inside the box, hidden beneath the beaded object, was a portion of a deconstructed American flag—a gift from a collector after the flag had fulfilled its functional life. We treated it like a sacred relic, embedding it into the artwork as a kind of Trojan horse—a nod to beauty, violence, nationalism, and concealment.