Considers the ways of the placing of and playing with Puerto Rican flags constitutes a visual praxis of haciendo patria or nation building. Terms that affix paradigms of nationality, albeit a transitory nationality, onto the people of the non-sovereign nation of Puerto Rico; Idea of Puerto Rico for Puerto Rican artists who were not born or did not grow up on the island; Information on the work of art of Juan Sanchez, a Puerto Rican artist.;