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.
Marble quarry, Near Rutland, Green Mtns., Vt., between 1901 and 1906. Photographer: unknown, publisher: Detroit Publishing Company. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.