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Aug. 27th, 2004 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseFrom my brother: anti war poster gets flack. It is a disturbing poster, I agree. But some times things need to be disturbing for people to pay attention to them.
I see that Eyes Wide Open isn't due to go through MN, but if you do live somewhere that you can see it, it's pretty impressive. I didn't look at the indoor exhibit, but the outdoor bit, the 900 some boots lined up like headstones in Arlington Cemetary--very powerful. Very sad. I was older than most of the people from PA who died, which is just sobering. And the pile of shoes for the Iraqi deaths--there's a room in the holocaust museum that's a smallish rectangular room. There's a straight path across it which divides it aproximately into thirds, of, say, 6-8 feet each. The sides of the path have waist-high walls, so there's two bins, basically, and the walk way. And the bins are filled with shoes. Those shoes are from boxcars at a concentration camp. Everytime I remember the shoes for the civilian deaths (1 pair of shoes for every 16 people, I think the ratio is now), I also flash on that room, Waist-deep, with plain, brown leather, lace-up ankle boots. I don't know if they wanted to remind people of that but maybe. They do intentionally mimic Arlington, but this correlation may be just my brain.
Anyway, if you get a chance, go see it.
I see that Eyes Wide Open isn't due to go through MN, but if you do live somewhere that you can see it, it's pretty impressive. I didn't look at the indoor exhibit, but the outdoor bit, the 900 some boots lined up like headstones in Arlington Cemetary--very powerful. Very sad. I was older than most of the people from PA who died, which is just sobering. And the pile of shoes for the Iraqi deaths--there's a room in the holocaust museum that's a smallish rectangular room. There's a straight path across it which divides it aproximately into thirds, of, say, 6-8 feet each. The sides of the path have waist-high walls, so there's two bins, basically, and the walk way. And the bins are filled with shoes. Those shoes are from boxcars at a concentration camp. Everytime I remember the shoes for the civilian deaths (1 pair of shoes for every 16 people, I think the ratio is now), I also flash on that room, Waist-deep, with plain, brown leather, lace-up ankle boots. I don't know if they wanted to remind people of that but maybe. They do intentionally mimic Arlington, but this correlation may be just my brain.
Anyway, if you get a chance, go see it.
