World War I, thousands of Black South Africans enlist for non-combatant service around the African continent. Their stories untold, unremembered, uncommemorated. Their graves scattered, or nonexistent.

Displaced to the Company’s Gardens in the Table Valley in Cape Town, a historically contested territory, colonial geographies are engaged. The memorial disrupts the geometry of the colonial gardens with a single curved line in the grass, from which a series of tilted planes are articulated.

New ramped pathways are carved to navigate topographic tensions; Indigenous fynbos reclaims the manicured landscape. Arranged shoulder-to-shoulder to form a large ellipse, the names of the fallen are sandblasted into individual black stone slats, and stitched into the landscape. Unsettled ground, settled.