 Beam's imagery for the Columbus Project was cross-culturally vast, and contained the primary images of Columbus, and Native peoples, but also images of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Albert Einstein, and Abraham Lincoln, Italian Christian iconography, diverse animal species, self-portraits and technology (stop lights, rockets).There were two sculptural elements, "Voyage" a partial reconstruction of the Santa Maria, and the "Ampulleta", a hourglass, with one obstructive stone within the sand, as well as several installations, and a video performance of Beam in the Dominican Republic, making a representational graveyard on the beaches where the landing could have taken place.In 1992 Carl Beam and Ann Beam built an adobe house on Manitoulin Island.