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Dreamcatcher VII

February 25, 2008 by Nicholas Hedges

On my way to Luxembourg, I considered the pile of string and went over what I’d previously written, that the lines equate to hair, memories of the individual, individuals themselves, written words, unspoken words. The dreamcatcher, I summarised, is the attempt of the tourist to piece together a moment from the mass of dead light. It is the attempt to imagine what victims might have written /thought at the time (unwritten words) and maybe in the future; it is the attempt to piece together unsung melodies (music) and, to some extent, unsaid words (wires). But how do I help people make that connection?

Dreamcatcher VII

Could I use postcards, manuscript paper, writing paper?

25-02-08

Having drawn the above (right-hand side) I was reminded of the wall of broken/displaced gravestones myself and Monika saw in Kazimierz-Dolny.

Old Jewish Cemetery, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

If I use postcards, manuscript paper, writing paper and so on (put on the wall behind the pile of string) would it be best to rip them and attempt to put them back together in the manner of the wall?

Filed Under: Holocaust Tagged With: Drawings, Dreamcatcher, Holocaust, Music, WWII

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