Arrival:

As we approach the Memorial’s centerpiece and step within its boundaries, we first see and pass between its columns –

Pillars on which we stand or
Barricade and cage?
Echoes of an antebellum manse or
Shelter and shadow of our common place?

Separated from the ground and roof by steel supports, each column is hewn from a single cypress from Southeastern swamps.  The roof and the floor on which the columns stand are proportioned 1:1.62 – the “golden rectangle.”