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.
Redfield Proctor: born June 1, 1831, died March 4, 1908. 37th Governor of Vermont from 1878 to 1880, United States Secretary of War from 1889 to 1891, United States Senator for Vermont from 1891 to 1908. Founder, owner and president of the Vermont Marble Company from 1880 to 1908