Memories in black and white

Hi Everybody!

It's Friday already! Time to link again to

Paint Party Friday and Art Journal Journey,

for Susi's challenge of collage with a twist.

This is the 2nd A3 mixed media collage inspired by Enrico Baj.
I drew hands like Baj, using a permanent marker on book pages. The background was painted with black gesso, stamped, glittered, and given a bright frame to symbolise hope. The Hebrew words  read Yad Vashem, literally translated 'hand and name'. This is the name of the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, created to give the dead who had no grave a memorial, as well as to honour those who risked their own lives to save Jews.
The word 'Yad' can be used in the sense of a marker, a monument, but also means 'hand'.

This is another of the installations at the K21 Museum, created by

Christian Boltanski, whose central themes are memory, forgetting and death.

Here he has erected a memorial to the anonymous dead with this 'archive'.

He displays photos of men, women and children - some  of whom are victims and some perpetrators of crimes - without making distinctions. 

The crime scene photos and details are stored in the rusty, 

metal boxes underneath the photos.

The shelf at the end of the room contain linen shrouds. 

This was a very moving installation:

On a lighter note, I saw these wild geese marching from the

lake to the main road when I left the museum:

This one was really sticking his/her neck out and making a heck of a noise.

I had the feeling that the others were being called to order,

as they didn't stray farther after the loud discussion:

Have a great day, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by!