A New World Burial (One God, One Faith, One Crop) explored what Wendell Berry called the "unsettling of America", or the sequence of conquest and settlement. Military conquest of Indians was often followed by the settlement of their lands by European Americans, who perceived that they had a natural right to it. As Wes Jackson wrote in Becoming Native to This Place (1994), "Indians were viewed as obstacles, surplus people, which validated killing them off, or moving them off, making their land available for our settlement. It became a pattern in American history, and without realizing it, we had established a precedent. In due time the descendants of those settlers also became surplus people.  The old farm families were removed and their rural communities destroyed as the industrial revolution infiltrated agriculture."

This installation examined the effects of industrial agriculture on small farmers, agrarian communities and the ecological decimation caused by unsustainable agricultural practices. Just as historical Manifest Destiny helped extirpate the indigenous cultures of America, contemporary manifest destiny can be seen in federal trade policies such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This agreement helped disintegrate not only the small farmers of this country, but those to the south of us in Mexico as well. By combining Old and New World cultures (symbolized by over 250 broccoli stalks and roots "planted" in 2000 lbs. of organic cornmeal), I critically explore the way our nation is being manifested through modern agriculture.