Throughout Edwards’s career, he has had an interest in chain link as a material and formal object that also tells stories about connection and community. Edwards incorporates chain as an element of his sculptures and sometimes as a unique stand-alone work that visually expresses collective unity, resistance and fortitude to not only endure but thrive. Amplifying many smaller public works by Edwards that incorporate chain as a visual language that are installed around the world including in New York, Ohio, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, as well as internationally in Cuba, Brazil, and Senegal, Column – at over 36 feet tall – is the largest chain work to date. Standing as a symbol of Crenshaw’s artistic legacy of cooperation and innovation, Column in burnished stainless steel also signals the reception and reflection of those aesthetics by the community in which they were generated. The verticality of the chain link represents how our stories build upon another, how we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us, and how our collective engagement in our community becomes the very structure of its success.