Megan Matthews
My most memorable experience of art was my trip to the Holocaust Museum in
Washington D.C. a few years ago. The one particular piece that really stuck
with me was the video of the women and children in the concentration camp.
The video was not up on a screen for all to see, but was on the floor
surrounded by a solid white concrete square. To view the video, you had to
lean over the concrete, which was about 3-4 feet tall. I don't remember if
the concrete was there to prevent children from seeing the video. Even if
it was, I think it really showed how awful the conditions of the
concentration camps were. They were so awful, that the video footage had to
be hidden, so only those who wanted to see it would see. This art experience was also memorable because of the incorporation of the video footage rather than a still picture.