The series of objects titled Not Red Banners was begun in 2003 as a response to Marina Abramovich’s New Hero images. The banners, or flag pieces, do not symbolize a specific political doctrine, but certainly I was trying to “charge” them with a political suggestiveness, in order that they have appeal for at least a decade or so. They are made of wood, fabric and steel staples, and eschew the use of expensive new media. They are constructed as paintings to use the effect of temporarity. My attitude as an Armenian artist allows me to play with the interweaving of minimalistic form and lively surface. I use a specially woven silk and see-through orange and violet gauze as a mix of fine layers that changes colour depending on light and the angle of view. Viewers of contemporary art usually see these banner objects simply as red fields, and are likely to interpret them as signs of leftist activism. I do not mind this kind of misinterpretation.