Remains

The most frightening places do not look frightening. They are simply empty.

There is no movement. Nothing remains but walls, doors, and light. They have remained this way for decades because their emptiness no longer belongs to the space itself — it belongs to something else.

There is no movement. But this is not peace. It is silence that has become emptiness.

This emptiness is not simply abandonment or loneliness. It did not emerge on its own. It was left behind. That is why the space never feels truly free.

Time can preserve walls, doors, and windows. Yet it cannot make this place entirely empty. Here, emptiness itself has become the most enduring trace of human presence.

Red Cross Camp, Niš, Serbia.
May, 2024.
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