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Gibsonville, NC
Ab the Flagman
Ab was given the nickname Abstract, Ab for short, by friends in school. Ab and his mother moved to Atlanta when Ab was seven years old, after the death of his father. Ab remembers sitting at his father's funeral looking at the flag on the coffin. When the flag was given to an older half-sister, whom Ab did not know, the little boy was tremendously disappointed. Ab began collecting cloth flags after that. For work Ab started out as a carpenter and builder. One day he looked at the walls of his house and decided to make something to hang above the fireplace. He was in his front yard finishing a giant flag made from odds and ends from left over wood and moldings. A man drove by and asked if he could buy the flag for a party he was having for the Fourth of July. At first Ab said no, but when the man pulled out $75 cash, Ab sold it on the spot. The man came back after the party and asked Ab to make three more because his friends wanted to buy them. And so Ab Ivens became "Ab the Flagman" and he has made flags ever since. Over the years his work has grown in size and complexity as he has adapted his style to represent other subjects - eagles, guitars, broken hearts, landscapes, cityscapes — all meticulously assembled from tiny pieces of wood.
1964 - 2022
We are sad to report that our friend Ab passed away shortly before Thanksgiving 2022.
A warm loving person with big dreams, Ab will be missed by many.
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