'Fallen Leaves' installation, Jewish Museum, Kreuzberg, Berlin

Metal discs forged as faces of young and old alike.



Visitors were encouraged to walk on the clanking, clunking discs - it provided an aural insight into the sound of killing on an industrial scale - all reduced to raw materials.

One Italian lady posed and photographed her young daughter smiling whilst standing on the discs. I wonder what that young girl will make of the photo if she chances upon it in her adulthood?

Did she identify the expressions on those discs? Did her mother?

Victims of conflicts the world over. Call them what you will - collateral damage, results of the law of unintended consequences, victims, collaborators, enemies, mother, father, sister and brother.

British concentration camps in South Africa. Nazi-era Europe. Indo-Pak partition in 1947. Stalinist gulags. Cambodian killing fields. South America's 'disappeared'. Ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. Genocide in Darfur.

All the while, the machine continues clanking, clunking, grinding and consuming.