There was another country next to the US that was like a massive California basically. It has the exact same culture but just was its own country and so I realised that's why people referred to it as America instead of just the US,
Raffi Kalenderian (American b. 1981, lives and works in Los Angeles), Bathers, 2023-2024. Acrylic and coloured pencil on paper, 32 x 25 cm. | 12.5 x 9 .75 in.