So far I have been writing all of the outings in reverse order which is an interesting to trace back how my perspective and expectations of tours have been built up an shifted over just a few weeks. Waiting at the Brandenburg gate for everyone to arrive I really don’t know what I was expecting but I remember appreciating that our two tour guides were not authoritative white guys.<\/p>\n
Looking up at the golden women who stiffly chills atop the gate and thinking about her being once a bringer of peace to a rescued symbol of victory was striking. Celebrating liberation and celebrating the exertion of power over others are two different things but one can be very easily twisted into the other.<\/p>\n
The memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe: Walking through watching oneself try to have a proper and authentic experience for fear of disrespecting the essence of the memorial. It got colder the deeper I was in. Walking through the narrow gridded walkways reminded me of an abandoned slaughter house I explored when I was younger. It gave me an analogous sensation to these moments back when I was retracing the steps the animals took through the narrow, long corrals of the killing floor. I wonder if it was a purely architectural sensation or because I was given contextual knowledge of why each were made, or perhaps also because I felt it necessary in both cases to feel my way into a speculative narrative based on the event and site\u00a0of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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