Our goal is to stimulate a forum for dialog and ideas, which will lead to the creation of a new layer of the landscape, a layer that will fit this age of hopeful change.

The first item of business is an urgent appeal to reconsider the general position towards the destruction of past monuments, and the general question of the monuments of the south. The subcommittee believes that erasing sites of controversial history allow for washing our hands clean from the responsibility we have to heal the wounds of this history that are still with us.
The subcommittee for American Monuments announces a campaign of superimposition to rethink the attitude towards historical monuments, erecting new giants that will dwarf the old monuments but will not eliminate them, transforming these locations into sites of reflection and education. A New Deal-like public-works commission will realize this new layer of the landscape.

The Subcommittee does not regard monuments or even the theater of visual representation as the most important area to be addressed when seeking social and political revision and redistribution of power. There are surely many more urgent matters to attend to from health to infrastructure, taxation to education. Yet the fight over representation, in its proper place in line of urgency, does have a profound impact on the political. And it is in this field that the Subcommittee seeks to impact and generate recommendations for action.

The Subcommittee for American Monuments