Over the course of three months, I would walk along Eckernförde beach every afternoon, where I came across sandcastles and other fragile structures left behind by anonymous hands. These temporary forms became a space for reflecting on territory, identity, and belonging. Each time I discovered a new one, I placed a small flag in the sand and photographed it. The gesture carries two histories at once: humanity's attachment to land, and the violent act of claiming it as territory. The flags are small within the frame, but their symbolic weight is not.

Rooted in a practice that questions how invisible systems become tangible through material and gesture, this series asks what it means to plant a symbol of power in something that will not withstand the tide. It places nationalist symbols at the heart of the unresolved tensions of a globalised world.