 It was at this time that he noticed the abundance of monuments in Indianapolis, which would later inspire his vision for "E Pluribus Unum".This is the first time that Wilson has "mined" a city's monuments in order to create a public artwork.The original figure of "E Pluribus Unum", a formerly enslaved African American man, is part of a 250-ton sculpture known as the Peace group, which was designed by Herman Matzen and carved by German sculptor Rudolph Schwarz from fifty five separate blocks of limestone.