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.
View of the East Dorset Italian Marble Mountains and Mills. Frank Childs, 1864. Lithographer: Ferdinand Mayer and Sons, publisher: D. L. Kent & Co. From The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library, Digital Collections