The Situational Tour

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For my project i will look at the emotional impact of the area around the lincoln memorial. I did a first tour if the area last night to examine it for its possibilities for a project. I have a special foundness for all of the momuments in the middle of the night. It is a very provocative experience to be the only one at the veitnam memorial, or to be the one standing on the spot where MLK gave his I Have A Dream Speach. I actualy didnt even rember he had given it there or coralate the spot yesterday, i just happened to look down and there were roses on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

The Location has obvious ritualistic and ideological impact as the emotions of Korea, Veitnam, Civil Rights Movment, and the civil war are combinded together in a few hundred feet of bog land covered with emotionaly moving symbols of events in are nations past. As to Ideology, the Lincoln memorial itself may stand in some ways to a unionist and federalist opinion, there could also be construed to be some civil rights appeals in the small placks, the war memorials however are very ideology nuteral. I think the greatest thing about going in the middle of the night is that in the isolation that you feel all alone in the dark by these great monuments the feeling of security fade away, any shadow could be dangerous, you must stand on your own two feet, and secondly there is no authority, you feel like standing in the middle of this or that and taking a picture, it hurts no one else.