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The "Tears of Stone" exhibition is a conceptual installation that allows viewers to participate in the process of remembrance.

 

A strip of molding which runs continuously around the gallery walls is affixed below the photographs.

 

Scores of photographs of written observations from World War I cemeteries are placed on pedestals throughout the gallery.

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Viewers are asked to write down their thoughts on the reverse side of these pictures and to place them at any location along the molding.

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Regardless of which side is facing out, writing is visible and the exhibition itself takes on the character of a memorial.