Horsemen (2024) Porcelain and mixed media
16 x 21 x 7 inches
Monuments shape the American landscape and our sense of national identity, yet they are far from neutral or silent. These structures encode decisions about what and whom our society chooses to honor. They transform individual memories into public narratives, often presenting contested histories as truths set in stone. In fact, monuments reveal more about those who erect them than about the events or people they depict. With singular perspectives and centuries of selective memory, their narratives reflect the power structures, aspirations, and anxieties of the eras that produced them.
With a nod to the Iwo Jima National Monument and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, “Horsemen” imagines a monument for our time based on the rhetoric, raised idols, and dangerously false narratives of our current era.
Pestilence (2021), Conquest (2022), War (2023), Death (2024)