Final Panels

Final Statement and Overall Message and Learning Experience conveyed through a poetically written piece. 

Poetic piece chosen over an academically written statement as this shows more emotion, evokes the necessary feelings within the reader and communicates the integral idea (as Yasu reiterated to us) of why people enter the space, why they want to go back and what they see and feel from afar and from within the space. 


An invisible sheath enrobes the entire site in precious, traumatic memories. Camouflage air raid bunkers, a rare sliver of history. We are reminded of the lives lost. A bridge, elevated, imposing, looms. We are reminded of the lives lost. The water, slaps the edge, sparkles innocently in the rain. We are reminded of the exquisite terror of nature. Too many lives lost. 


Folie is stark in the darkness. White. Curiously disturbing. Its radiance contrasts against the austerity of the cliff. Whiter. It floats gently on the water’s edge. Offers us a new perspective of understanding through experience. Slight in form, powerful in message. Activate space, activate memories, activate knowledge. We consider…


Folie is lit, hollow but eager to be awoken. The user enters. Activated. A figure disappears. A silhouette manoeuvres about. Ghostly. A small soul floats within the folie. We watch it from the bridge. Folie is alive with memories. Humming. A glimpse of shadow catches on the cliff face, giant, elongated. A moment captured. Quickly released it is gone. More shadows arise, rousing the aged cliff face. More silhouettes linger. The space is living, its tempestuous past slowly revealed. Off the bridge now, the ethereal movements encased in white are ours. A shadow is cast. It is mine. I wave to the memories. I will return. 


The sheath is no longer invisible. We experienced. White. Just for a moment. We understood in all white, ours, theirs, all the dancing shadows, the souls that still live, the events that yearn for a flicker of understanding, of a moment of time. We learnt of an ancient space. We gave a thought. We activated knowledge. We wave, to the lives lost.