At the corner of East Bay and Calhoun, two empty houses—the family homes of owners Catherine Braxton and Rebecca Chandler whose recently emancipated grandfather left slavery and walked from the Drayton Hall plantation to the Ansenborough neighborhoood in Charleston—are both site and the symbol for this project.

Throughout the 20th century the Ansonborough neighborhood was a center of African American culture, slowly eroding through gentrification until the Ansonborough Homes public housing project was razed in the early 1990’s. This civic sponsored demolition was seen very differently by blacks and whites in the region, and the absence of African American history and voices in determining the fate of the now vacant Ansonborough Fields is symbolic of other absences throughout the region.