Sig Bang Schmidt Great War Art: Door

Thresholds Between War and Remembrance

A door can suggest passage, absence or a boundary between past and present. In a Great War art context, this image opens a way to think about memory as something entered slowly: through traces, symbols and the spaces left behind after soldiers and civilians have disappeared from the scene.

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