In this year of troubled times, I kept thinking of the ancient Greeks and Romans- their culture and the fragility of democracy. I photographed the Greek & Roman statues in the Metropolitan Museum's sculpture courts and placed them in photographs I have taken in various locations in the USA. The goddesses are avatars from the past, silently watching our descent and the earth's climate made vulnerable to our whims. These silent stone witnesses could just as easily be citizens of “Herland” Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s story, who decided in the end not to allow the contamination of contemporary society into their walled and hidden utopia with its society built on nurturing both the environment and the creatures within it. Perhaps, if Gillman were writing her story today, the women of Herland might indeed be sending their emissaries, cast in stone as armor against our assault upon the earth.