At Choeung Ek, as I approached the pagodalike memorial to the dead, a glass tower filled with skulls, raggedy children swarmed around me. "One dollar, we go away," a small boy said.
The dead little glass eyes, the off-centre plastic nose, its horrible mouth.
In dead-annealing, glass is so well annealed that the internal tension is almost undetectable.
The reason for having dead-annealed glass is the absence of tension in the interior; internal tension would cause the glass to shatter upon impact of the first bullet, thereby rendering the person behind the glass vulnerable to the second bullet.
As a result of this story, the Greeks would always toast to the dead with glasses filled with water to symbolize their voyage, via the river, to the Underworld.
In the lab, they have been observed to stick themselves to a variety of substrates, including glass, dead coral, and live algae.
She is also creating "archive boxes" from her meadow, inspired by the specimen cases of natural history museums: "That's where things will end up if we're not careful – things will be dead or behind glass".
The towering walls of the trench are bare and rocky in places, but overwhelmingly they are covered with sediment that builds up as dead plankton, the glass skeletons from algae called diatoms, and the excrement from all the marine life swimming above, descend and settle.
"I think we struck a nerve generally in the classical music world with the Bard festival and with the American Symphony concerts," he said, "by curating concerts, by treating the public seriously in a way that is not forbidding and by making music not a dead object behind glass, but a subject of living controversy and reinterpretation on the part of the audience as well as the performers.
He pretended he was dead, lying amid glass shards, several dead boys and some who were still alive.
