Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Carving

3D Model

A 3D model created in Zbrush by artist Joel Silverman in interrogation of Georgia’s Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Carving. Free to download with a Creative Commons License.

I feel the need to make digital 3D studies of things I’m trying to wrap my head around as a sculptor. I can’t stop thinking about the Georgia’s Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Carving. Stone Mountain Park was dedicated on the 1965 centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s 1865 assassination. The park was intended as a billboard to promote the Ku Klux Klan, and the centerpiece was this monument to Confederate leaders carved into the largest bas relief sculpture in the world. Here is a photogrammetry model I’ve created of Gutzon Borglum’s carving, set to be a free download to encourage remixing and further interrogation of this monument.