In the durational performance the money is in the blades, Asia Stewart sprays and lathers shaving cream onto a mounted U.S. flag and cuts its fabric into dozens of pieces with disposable Gillette razors. Her actions not only magnify the ritualized performance of shaving, but also directly connect the ubiquity of razors to the United States’ conduct of war. After learning that The Gillette Company’s expansion in the twentieth century was largely buoyed by its role in World War I and partnership with the U.S. government, she felt a desire to recast the everyday object of a razor as an oft-overlooked tool of the military industrial complex. Here, she uses that same item to tear at the seams of a national symbol and destroy it.