The River Between Us: Homer Plessy and Dred Scott
This is a permanent work installed in the fall of 2013 in both the cities of St. Louis, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana. The River Between Us: Homer Plessy and Dred Scott comprises of busts two important 19th century civil rights martyrs that became cause celbres in their respective home cities. The actions of Plessy and Scott had long standing reverberation well into the 20th century. 2 identical sets of sculptures will be placed on either side of a garden path in St. Louis’s Laumeier Park and teh other in New Orleans’ Longvue Gardens. They face one another joined by the narrative of the Mississippi river.