Unmanned Drone, 2023

Unmanned Drone is a radical reimagining of Charles Keck’s 1921 bronze monument to the Confederate general “Stonewall” Jackson, which stood in Charlottesville, Virginia, for a century before it was decommissioned by the city in 2021. The original monument, depicting Jackson on his horse “Little Sorrel,” was then re-deeded to the Los Angeles non-profit The Brick, which had proposed to give the bronze to Walker for her creation of a new work of art, becoming Unmanned Drone. Walker’s sculpture is a monstrous assemblage of man and horse, turning a once-heroic commemoration of the Lost Cause into a visceral, yet deeply considered reflection on questions of authorship and American history and myth.