This item is a souvenir of a conversation about freedom in
Dead Horse Bay. Together with a friend, I explored the beach
the bay. Due to currents and a former landfill,
thousands of personal items, broken glass containers and other non
decomposable materials that tell a story about New Yorkers, but also about
People from other places tell stories.
As a German who currently lives in the USA and as an American whose
Mexican family became Americans through new border demarcations,
We exchanged our different experiences with the
The topic of freedom. While for him freedom means being with his family
to be able to live and study again after a 3-year prison sentence,
means freedom for me, to travel, to be unattached and to
To be able to choose where to live.
Our own stories turned out to be similarly fragmented, multi-part and
complex, as the life stories and snapshots on which the
Objects of the bay. Similar to the objects, we see ourselves in
living in a new context, but also shaped by our new environment
and changed.
This conversation has shown me many aspects of the freedom I have in
Germany, questioning and re-evaluating what I grew up in.
The article contains his and my finds from the bay
brought together without revealing who found them.
