14th Amendment Watercolor on paper mounted on panel 16"x12, 2017  Signed into law in 1868 it is startling how long it has taken for this amendment to take hold. It was originally designed to grant rights to slaves recently freed following the civil war. Pushed through by Republicans, who in the age of (post)Lincoln, were more progressive and forward thinking than they present themselves today. Still. Almost a century and a half later and these truths are still not self evident. Sometimes we have to look back at what we forgot to correct in order to move forward.&nbsp;