Francesco Finizio's work is diverse and unpredictable usually taking the form of site-specific installations, and touching on subjects as disparate as dreams, architecture, television talk shows, waiting rooms, and sports. Speedwalk is a site-specific sculpture originally installed at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York in 1999. The long, narrow, floor piece (the width of an Olympic track lane) charts every world record holder in the 100-meter dash during the twentieth century. The amount of space between runners as calculated by Finizio is exactly the margin of progress from one world record to the next. Over the course of a century, world records kept occurring, however, the margin of progress generally decreased. Finizio's sculpture suggests that in time the gaps between runners will almost collapse, and progress is only possible to a point. Finizio's sculpture is a physical manifestation of the notion of progress in the twentieth century.