These parallels cause one to think about the ties that people have with their origins and how these connections are globally similar. Transplanting a cultural image from one place to another on our planet can awaken those ties and bring back the collective memory of the region where the cultural image is transplanted. This will contribute to a better knowledge of both cultural heritages.

While The Incas Road is a very real construction–a fifteen thousand mile network of roads and trails that the Incas built between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries to consolidate their empire; for me, it is also a metaphor for a united Americas, a hemisphere without borders that existed before the Conquista. This Incas Road, made of simple gravel, earth, tree twigs and bits and pieces of pottery is a trip into the indigenous roots of the Americas, to show that it was and still is one landscape, struggling yet against its past while attempting to build a democratic, peaceful future. This Incas Road in Iowa City is a tribute to the peoples and cultures and land we have forgotten in our race to the future.