from Michelle Millar Fisher:

"I had read about Desmond's hybrid work that synthesizes fine art, farming, faith, and pyrotechnics in the service of Black community making and preservation, and I wanted to know more. I arrived on his land in Tennessee to find him standing in front of a small shipping container inside of which were a few of his steel sculptures. Lewis often uses steel as a frequently invisible yet structurally imperative building material with rich potential as a metaphor for the concealed contributions of Black individuals and communities to US history. "