An original commissioning and stewardship standard for monumental bronze statues and sculptures, defining design, engineering coordination, documentation and long‑term maintenance expectations for serious institutions.

Why has every civilisation that understood eternity chosen to build in stone? It was not out of excess or spectacle, but from the quiet certainty that what was being made was not merely for the present. Stone was never selected for convenience. It resists speed, refuses revision, and carries consequence. It does not bend to fashion or urgency, and once shaped it does not ask to be explained. Stone waits, and in its waiting it speaks with an authority that language rarely achi

Our Lady of the Prairie by Damien Walker A Bishop on the Prairie In 2022, Bishop Chad Zielinski arrived in the Diocese of New Ulm, Minnesota, and did what bishops once did as a matter of course: he drove to the four corners of his territory to see the land and the people entrusted to him. He found 9,000 square miles of Midwestern prairie: wheat fields stretching to the horizon, silos and barns and small town parishes scattered along the Minnesota River. He saw in that flatnes

Damien Walker speaks about the meaning, symbolism, and spiritual journey behind Our Lady of the Prairie, the life-size painting commissioned by the Diocese of New Ulm.

Artist Damien Walker is currently in the Diocese of New Ulm, sharing the story and sacred inspiration behind Our Lady of the Prairie. His visit has sparked widespread media coverage across Minnesota as the diocese celebrates the rededication and the ongoing Pilgrimage of Hope.