One of Singh’s projections reads: "Let’s repeat the definition of an empire" and is projected onto a barrier that also serves as a sign for the Delhi Police. We re-project these lines in Chicago, on the Buckingham Memorial fountain, installed in honor of Charles Buckingham in one of the most-visited parts of the city, overlooking lake Michigan and in full view of Chicago’s business center. The projected line implies capitalist power and domination. The bright lights of industry in the background echo this sentiment.

One of Singh’s Capital Formation, projections includes a projection onto her childhood home, outfitted with colonial style columns. Built in the aftermath of Independence, the house is one in a series of constructions that were created by the first generation of Indians that had survived the partition of India, where architecture was used as a tool for communicating economic power to society through the appropriation of European architecture. Unbefitting Delhli’s weather, the house stands with a facade of Tuscan-like non-structural, decorative columns. On it, Singh’s projected line reads “The memory of the afterwards, the reformer, reformatted, repurposed, reappropriated.” The house relies on the associative connotations carried out by its architecture.

We replicate Singh’s projection onto the Columbus plinth in Chicago, at the site of the struggle between police and protesters. This piece echoes the ways states deploy monuments to bolster their myths and the state government to protect them, affirming governing authority and power, perpetuating Columbus as a national myth for public consumption.