Jenny Balisle’s piece America Red, White and Blue explores the subject of legalised gun use in America, which has been a problem for many years and still is now, worryingly in todays society.
To create this piece she has used colorplan paper, 25×38 inches and shot at them with a Mossberg 500 shotgun, with the paper on a target of 7 yards away. She has used the gun to create lots of different sized marks on the paper, to catch the eye and I think this is effective more so in the white piece of paper because the other two are too dark to see the smaller details.
The use of the gun marks being all over the American flag is very effective as it is showing the damage guns can create but also highlighting how they are legalised in America. Putting it on the American flag is very effective as it is the best known symbol or image to show the piece is about America. So a large part of the audience should understand that the piece is talking about America and they’re use of guns. This also shows how easy it is to get and use a gun in the country, as a use of a gun was created in the making of this art. This piece will always be effective until if there is such a day when guns are not legal anymore in America.

Sources:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-pleasant/artists-as-activists-purs_b_11783614.html
http://lawrencemigration.phillipscollection.org/immerse-yourself/your-panel61/jenny-e-balisle