essie mae wasn't too complicated, but they had the change of the four, four, four children to a five. and in order to do that that's tricky stonework and it's rough and it's a mess. and every time i see it, it raises a hair on the back of my neck because she literally trying carve her existence into the landscape in a way that's very powerful. so it's not just confederate monuments. it's these ideas are carved the landscape all around us in all kinds of interesting ways. my favorite example, the i don't know if this is my favorite examples, but thinking about how this works in museums and it almost seems like a cheap shot, but i the most vivid example is at the museum natural history in new york city, fanciest real estate, huge building, beautiful neoclassical building inscribed with the words knowledge, vision nature and in front of it for a very long time. until 2022, there a statue, three figures, a teddy roosevelt on a horse in a uniform with a fully articular fitted saddle. everything about him was articulated in great detail. we knew name on one side. he was flanked by an unname