A kid that lives in the Dominican Republic. He doesn’t know me, or the fact that the anti-theft software on my computer is taking pictures of him whenever he’s on my laptop that was stolen from me over a year ago.
humalien said: the sound in this room is so strange…
[Strange metal clinks, like the sound of metal being hit by a hammer, or being hit with other pieces of metal in general, accompany each footstep, along with the general sound of metal rubbing over other pieces of metal. The room’s acoustics make it all sound hollow though, like a far off echo.]
Okay so for anyone who doesn’t know what this room is, this is the Memory Void, and it’s in the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany. This installation is actually something you’re SUPPOSED to walk on. That’s half the point of the installation. Each metal face is meant to represent the faces and voices that were silenced by the atrocities of the concentration camps in World War 2. Stepping on them and making them sound out is meant to give the voiceless a voice, to force us to remember them.
I’m just dying while thinking about a hotel employee calmly Googling “How to fold a towel in the shape of an elephant,” and then going out to buy eye stickers.
