Years after the National Mall was torn up and blocked off to re-grow grass as part of the stimulus package, the bulldozers are back to clear a ten by six acre parcel, located adjacent to the reflection pool, between the Lincoln Memorial and the World War Two Memorial. The parcel of land will be used as a “canvas” for Cuban-born American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, who is using sand and dirt to create a “facescape” or face landscape on the park land.

Rodriguez-Gerada took pictures of 18-25 year old men on the mall this summer, and plans to blend different attributes from the photos into a composite. The artist tells CBS that the inspiration for “Out of Many, One” — a melting-pot themed landscape — came from his time as an immigrant child in New Jersey.