F.S.O.S.T. Emblem Flag

Wall hanging painted flag made of fabric, bullion and wood measuring 15.5" x 13". This piece measures a total of 20" long when hanging from golden cord hanger. The emblematic device of the Fraternal Society of Suppliants to Trophonios(F.S.O.S.T.), the legendary architect whose fate was to embody an oracle of Apollo at acave shrine in the Boeotian countryside north of Attica in Ancient Greece. This piece of art belongs to a larger body of work entitled “Recently Discovered Artifacts”, a site-specific art installation presenting a cache of hidden “artifacts” from a fictional secret antiquarian society, once active in the historic building where Gold Bug operates in Old Pasadena, California. THE FRATERNAL SOCIETY OF SUPPLIANTS TO TROPHONIOS(F.S.O.S.T.) This mock exhibition is part of a collaborative, surrealist imagining built around some paintings by artist John Griswold, retroactively seeking a plausible context for the particularly odd imagery beginning to gel around a theme - his mem