I first came across the photograph of Helga Susanne, Hildegard Traudel, Helmut Christian, Holdine Kathrin, Hedwig Johanna, and Heidrun Elisabeth by chance, when leafing through an old and rather dishevelled copy of the magazine `Der Spiegel´ that had been left on a bench in a disused office. The sudden appearance of the children in the corner of the magazine´s page was deeply affecting, and this artwork, so far as I can now discern, was an attempt to somehow publicly respond to that initial sensation of shock and disturbance. As the artwork developed, I tried hard to consider what role visual representation can play within the difficult terrain of political symbolism and child-victim imagery. That said, in retrospect I feel that the photograph and both its emotional and historical charge was simply far too large for me to contend with. I do hope, nonetheless, that this artwork and the many difficulties I still attach to it can in some way reflect the very unsettling reality of child-victim imagery, where the impossibility of looking upon images of child-victims as closed-off objects for passive viewing becomes quite apparent.