I wish I had wanted to buy someone flowers. This image originates in a one off experiment that was inspired by the Sesame Street game of 'One of these things just doesn't belong'. It struck me that the one flag that didn't belong was the one most prominent in the picture. Like the self-replicating shapes of the fractal in the background, the United States is a country which seeps out beyond it's own borders and into the affairs of others countries, often invasively, seeking to mirror itself in the 'client' state. Very few countries, today and with similar breadth, do so.
Colonialism is largely the left to the world's last superpower, the United States.
This 'image' was a play on what many type designers began doing in the early-mid eighties. Although I think most of the inovations of type designers have and will be useful, I also think typography, a 'translation' of writing more generally, like any act of translating, should try to be a 'mirror' or the writing as it was created by the author. Tricky idea, as anyone who has done either language translation or studied the history of the publishing of a text will know. Needless to say, as a critical reflection of what the role of an author is, many of the new typefaces have succeeded in pointing out that the original form will change, one way or another, error or intention.