The mold for, and much of the pulp used in, casting was made from copies of a newspaper which featured a front page story about the Eastern Band of Cherokee’s historic agreement with Smoky Mountain National Park that “returns the right” to the Cherokee to pick sochan on their ancestral land as they had done for thousands of years prior to colonization. The bulk of the rest of the pulp includes newspapers which feature front page stories about the Eastern Band as well as protests and county commissioners voting around removing “Sylva Sam,” a confederate statue located on the steps of the public library, what was once a courthouse, in my small town. Some sheets of raw paper pulp used were salvaged from a decommissioned newspaper printing facility and microfilm, microfilm boxes, studio and home used paper, and other personal paper ephemera were added. The process of making the mold and casting took over a year, and wasn't completed until late 2020.