I was raised in the United States in a bohemian family that romanticized the U.S.S.R. Though we were disabused of our misconceptions in the early 1980s, I retained a dissonant fascination with Soviet imagery and futuristic monuments. In 2022, I was awarded a CEC Arts Link residency in Bulgaria, which enabled me to research Bulgaria’s Soviet-era public art. The outcome is my collaborative augmented reality app, R.R.M. Revolving Red Monuments. My attraction to Soviet-era monuments might seem naive to an Eastern European, as these structures are overdetermined to those who have lived with them for a long time. For me, they hold a strange magnetism precisely because they are awkward and out of tune. And my research on them has been helpful as I look at my home, at our corrupt president, as I aim to work against his use of public art to shape and propagate his destructive agenda.