Liquidation was conceived as a time-based data visualization installation to explore and understand the growth and destruction of the Łódź Ghetto in Poland between 1940 and 1944. The early design featured fiber-optic cables with lights to represent individual residents of Łódź. The light strands dimmed with each resident’s death or deportation from Łódź, resulting in a dim room at the conclusion of WWII and the “liquidation” of the ghetto. The intention of the work was both to memorialize those lives lost and to present the story of Łódź in an innovative way
