25 years later, the Berlin Wall still invokes memories

Collecting memories: Art professor Sheryl Oring (right) writes a testimony by a tourist on her typewriter at a desk outside the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin.

In conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the fall of the infamous Berlin Wall, an art professor collects and builds a patchwork of memories.

Art professor Sheryl Oring sits at a desk outside the Berlin Wall Memorial, clacking away at a typewriter like a secretary, with thick-rimmed glasses perched on the end of her nose. A man stands before her giving a testimony that will form part of an art project aimed at getting a sense of how people today feel about one of the most pivotal moments in modern German and world history.