With the name Abraham Lincoln, I take the letters and replicate the historical poster of the Civil Rights “I AM A MAN”, referencing the unknown history of Lincoln opposing the Mexican American war, against president Polk. I was in Durham, North Carolina when the monument of a confederate soldier was toppled. With the text left on the marble plinth after the fallen statue had been removed, I wrote the historical civil rights poster POWER TO THE PEOPLE, and used in protests. These gestures can help bridge the historical past to our contemporary moment, through the use of frottage, public interventions, and protest, as mediums to collapse time, in an attempt to narrow the distance located between both the past and the present. How can monuments be activated through the renewed engagement of public ritual that both disputes, resists and deconstructs, not as a means of fixing history but as a way of readdressing in our present condition.