"Monuments are an important part of shared cultural experience, and yet I think over time our definition of monuments has taken on a kind of crude weightiness, or immutability, or a high barrier of entry — There is a way in which monuments have taken on this shared sense that they require a lot of energy and time and resources to produce, and that plays cleanly into these more political senses or questions of, “who has access to resources? When?” And what that means for the history of monuments as they persist into the present moment. So, I have found myself returning to these attempts to find more improvisational, less resource-intensive ways of creating monuments, and also questioning how the monuments that we do have came to demand such resources from us as a group, as a shared cultural context, and how that might be adjusted to reflect a more complex social landscape." — Wilmer Wilson IV