Genocide is not a singular occurrence but rather an aggregation of individual horrors. This proposal for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial enumerates the victims of these events through the accretion of interlocking triangular elements recalling both the vast numbers who perished and the few who survived.

 

The cloud-like canopy is comprised of dark copper triangles, representing the dead, punctuated by colored glass triangles, representing survivors. The canopy, which will corrode and patina in the sea air, envelopes a shifting ground plane with spaces for informal congregation, reflection, and remembrance sheltered from the chaos of the boardwalk.