Manifest Destiny
Bronze
22"H | Edition #10/75

During the mid-nineteenth century as the American Frontier made its expanse westward to the Pacific, the common inspirational thread shared by many of the explorers and settlers was the belief they were destined and empowered by Divine Providence to prevail over the Indigenous Indians and ultimately overspread and possess all the land of North America. “Manifest Destiny,” the historical term for this belief, enhanced the settlers’ determination and confidence in their westward pursuit.

White Man Is As Grass
Bronze
24"H | Edition #24/75

Inspired by Chief Seattle's famous speech given during the treaty negotiation of 1854, and representative of the Indigenous People's deep suffering, humiliation and hopelessness as their native and sacred way of life, their land, and their dignity was stripped away and the imputation of a strange and foreign culture was imposed upon them, Chief Seattle refers to “that big Chief at Washington,” President Franklin Pierce and the devastating, devouring effect on the Native Americans by the innumerable white man and his belief they were destined by Divine Providence to overspread and possess the whole of the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific saying, “His people are many. They are like the grass that covers vast prairies.”