Memorial investigates how the overwhelming sea of identical headstones in Arlington National Cemetery came to embody an exclusionary, nationalist memorial that occludes the identities of the lives lost in our nation’s military and the globalized industry that extracts and refines the marble.
U. S. National Cemetery (Arlington), Washington, D.C., date and photographer unknown. From The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library, Digital Collections