The illusion of collective american identity is crafted from specific totems, monuments, and images. Back Country is one of these, an icon of the american red barn, pulled from food packaging, children’s books, and songs about the pastoral. The red barn is plastered over the meat and dairy industry, covering its realities with illusions of small family farms. To reveal the false nature of this monument to american identity, I filled the icon with the literal byproducts of its industry, beef tallow, and inverted it like a flag demonstrating a nation in crisis.