The finished installation is time-based and completes a cycle every 2 1/2 minutes. For each month of time, the light strands pulse, the number of lights reflecting the fluctuation in population. The steady pulses of light falling from the ghetto’s borders above represent months. During each pulse-month, the height of the light depicts the relative size of the ghetto’s population at that time.
A timeline is projected onto the floor beneath the installation, marking each month, 1940-1944. There is also an animation of droplets rippling in water projected above the timeline on the floor. The ripples show the relative scale of the departures from the ghetto each month.
