Even Walls Can Move

Even Walls Can Move, 2025

Cor-ten steel and recycled brick

15 x 30 x 4 feet

Located at the Bicentennial Park in Macon, GA

Commissioned by the Macon Arts Alliance

This sculpture powerfully embodies Macon’s complex history through its materials and form. The combination of weathered Corten steel and recycled bricks creates a dialogue between strength and transformation. The brick wall, breaking apart and taking flight, symbolizes Macon’s struggle with segregation and division. These bricks—materials deeply connected to Macon’s industrial history and architectural identity—represent the literal and figurative walls that once separated communities. The clay that formed these bricks came from the same earth all residents walked upon, yet the structures built from them often served to divide rather than unite. The rusted steel elements pushing through and reshaping the brick wall evoke the painful but necessary process of confronting entrenched systems of inequality. Just as the steel appears to bend and transform the rigid brickwork, so too has Macon’s community worked to bend the arc of its history toward justice and inclusion.