Lady Freedom

This artwork depicts Lady Freedom, relocated from her position atop the Capitol building in Washington, where many now question her symbolic legitimacy, to a setting which represents imagination and creative spirit; a place unconquerable and perpetually free. Welcome home. The original placement of the statue sits atop a pedestal surrounded by fasces, symbolic representations of the authority of the government. It’s also the root word for fascism. That part of the artwork was definitively removed from the new placement, for reasons that don’t need explanation. Can freedom in the human spirit and imagination be extinguished? Can socio-cultural pressures cause the imagination to be self cens...View all