The works here are examples from the Flag and Cross series by American artist Thomas Sayre. Here, the effects of bullets ripping into materials like metal, wood, and plastic elicit a powerful response in the viewer. The physicality inherent in torching his Smoke paintings or gouging the layers of tar and paint in the Tar series, becomes more loaded still the violent effects of various projectile penetrations including armor piercing bullets become part of the message and the medium.