Ruins of Memory (2020) Ario Elami October 3, 2022 Every building is a medium, for it imparts information put there by someone or something. Ruins are a special sort of medium, in a state of structural stability and instability. As mediums, they are closer to our meaning for intermediate. Each ruin is somewhere between its completion and an unimaginable apocalypse. It is both historical fact and, as Robert Harbison writes, a “way of seeing.”