I can't believe what a journey I've been on these past few months. I feel I've been following this historical timeline and now find myself in the heart of Betlin where much of the tragedy of the last 100 years originated. It's hard to imagine how this city has reinvented itself in the last 25 years. I visited many historic places from the cold war: Checkpoint Chsrlie and the Berlin Wall. All now tourist attractions, foregone but not forgotten. I even have a chunk of the Berlin Wall that a friend, Stephanie, from Connecticut brought back when she was working on a project for Otis Elevatoe in Berlin back in 1989. She was in Berln the night the wall came down. She described it as the most exhilarating event when people from East Berln swarmed into West Berlin, hugging and celebrating this momentous occasion.
There are stretches of the wall left in stages of demolition, forms of expression to memorialize the victims and to offer the public and view into that part of Berlin's history.
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| Sections of rebar left standing |
A cross section showing rounded cap to prevent climbing the wall
East side of wall becomes a gallery for expression through art
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