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Kristin Anderson
Celtic Petal Cross

Gurdon Brewster
Lord of the Dance

Welcome Home

Victor Challenor
Icon Processional
Cross

Barbara Desrosiers
Mysterium Fabrication

Thomas Faulkner
Roadkill

"There Is No Contradiction..."

Termination

Colleen Meacham
Expectations

Margaret Parker
Christ Takes Up
the Cross

Christ Is Nailed to
the Cross

Christine Parson
Crucifixion

Lucretia Robbins
Tau Cross/Grasses

Iris Cross

Anne Wetzel
The Cross

Crosses from
El Salvador

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Roadkill
Thomas Faulkner
mixed media
10' x 5'
2001

Representing a cultural crucifixion, this piece contrasts the American highway system that runs through the United States connecting its citizens to one another to the trails of defeat and humiliation through which Native American peoples have been divided and subjugated. The caricatures of buck-toothed savages bespeak the stereotyping that makes such treatment palatable and the carved heads popping out of toasters represents the dominant white culture's belief that "we toasted 'em." Each of the twelve toasters has a plaque inscribed with the name and dates of a trail which a particular Native American people was forced to walk (e.g., The Trail of Tears, Cherokee, 1838-1839; Bosque Redondo Retreat, Navaho, 1864-1868, The BIA paper trail, 1887-present).