The textile work takes the form of a pointed hood with cut-out eye openings. Its surface is made from stitched fragments of red baseball caps. Across the centre above the eyes, the phrase “Make America Great Again” remains visible. At the lower edge, a small US flag is attached. Constructed from MAGA caps, the overall form clearly references the iconography of historical Ku Klux Klan robes.

By translating a contemporary symbol into a form historically linked to racist violence and exclusion, the work raises the question of possible continuities. At the same time, the act of deconstruction and reassembly points to a practice of appropriation and resistance, in which the material itself becomes a vehicle for critique.

The work shows how political symbols are circulated and normalised through consumer culture — and how design can be used to expose and question these mechanisms.

Kate Kretz is an American artist whose practice engages with structures of power, violence and social norms. Her work explores how objects carry cultural meaning and how these meanings can be shifted through artistic intervention.