Freedom is a sovereign figure—armored, robed, and mythically scaled. Based on Thomas Crawford’s Statue of Freedom, which crowns the U.S. Capitol dome, the canvas reframes national iconography as Romantic propaganda. The Roman helmet, reshaped to resemble Iroquois feathers, the fur-trimmed robe, the sword—all rendered with stylized precision—form a curated fiction of power.

This is not a celebration of liberty. It’s a perversion of history through an imperial lens. The figure appropriates Native American and classical symbols to fabricate a myth of righteous authority. Within The Triumph of Romanticism, Freedom stands as a conceptual fulcrum: the moment belief becomes architecture, and architecture becomes control.

The canvas doesn’t honor the past. It reveals how myth is manufactured.