Current Photo Friday theme: Surreal
Sometimes I think the eye focuses on one small thing because it can’t bear to perceive a larger horror.
Last year I toured Houston’s Holocaust Museum with Tom, Rhonda, and Tay. I took a photo of this bit of earth from the Dachau concentration camp. My mother visited that camp when she was pregnant with me. It changed her, and ultimately, it was part of shaping who I am. While I stared at and photographed this, I felt dizzy and disconnected from myself–in a word, surreal.