The Chicago Cultural Center is Chicago’s one hundred year old former library and war memorial. Fascinated by the omnipresence of the Civil War Memorial and its ideals of male heroism, I countered with notions of private, intuitive experience. I was awarded a 2000 Illinois Visual Artists Fellowship for this project and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs subsequently purchased the glass Heraldic Emblems I-IV. Designed and fabricated specifically for the glass display cases of G.A.R. Memorial Hall, they remain on permanent display.