The middle passage monument was commissioned by the Homeward Bound foundation to mark the mid Atlantic ocean as a site of the death and interment of as many as one million Africans who perished during the voyage to the European colonies in the Americas.

The first Middle Passage Monument was to be used in funeral rites at a ceremony in New York before being sunk into the Atlantic Ocean as a grave marker; subsequent monuments were to be installed in various locations around the world as places of meditation and inspiration.

The Middle Passage Monument, 1999
114 x 104 x 60"

Courtesy Homeward Bound Foundation.

For more on this project, refer to www.middlepassage.org.