From the Fall of Berlin to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Ut pictura poesis

“…Marshack sought to demonstrate that these mark-makers were in fact tracking the moon across the sky [9], using a simple marking system of tilted lines and notches as a proxy for knowledge of a passing thing that could not otherwise be grasped by its witnesses. And at the other end of our recorded history, in the profoundly collaborative practice of stratigraphy [10], archaeologists draw through their dig sites in order to arrive at plausible narratives which could account for those sites, relative to the current state of knowledge, creating spatial/temporal cross-sections directed at the telling of some fragment of larger stories. Wickstead notes that while a collection of photographs might provide more comprehensive documentation, those at work in the field attest to the superiority of drawing for their purpose.…”