Imagine this ruin, not as a monument, but as a message. Imagine this message as a marker system. Through this system the form conveys to us that: “This place is a message and part of a system of messages. Pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.” But 5000 years later its full translation has been lost to time. Its message lays waste, perhaps forever to be misunderstood. So, I ask you then to continue to imagine:
Lost in Translation: Melissa Hollis
“This place is not a place of honour. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing is valued here.” What if, instead “this message is a warning about danger” ? What if this“danger is still present, in [our] time, as it was in [theirs]” ? What if the “danger is unleashed if this place is disturbed physically” ? All the while screaming to deaf ears that “this place is best shunned and left uninhabited.”