“Reckoning Place” is public art piece the artist installed on the campus of Wheaton College in Septmember of 2021. It is a new iteration of the Practicing Grief sculpture they made in 2020, this one reflecting on the abandoned industrial landscape of New England through a language of rusted zinc chromate and T-beams. There is a staggering correlation between loss of industry and skilled labor with the rise in overdoses. Towers of loss already pepper the landscape. Public places of reckoning to address the failures of capitalism and grieve all of its effects are crucial. How can we turn symbols of death into the practice of life?