ジョン・スタンメイヤーのインスタグラム(johnstanmeyer) - 1月1日 07時57分

10th Anniversary #2004tsunami #2004IndianOceanTsunami —

#Religious #statues remain amidst the ruins of a #temple and home in #Galle, #SriLanka, destroyed by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that hit the island nation on Boxing Day, December 26, 2004.

Personal Notes: My final days in Sri Lanka before traveling to #Indonesia ten years ago this week were spent amidst the devastated coastline in Galle. Even though Galle’s geographic location is southwest on the island, physically away from the eastward moving wave of the tsunami, the death toll was amazingly higher here than in any most other locations in Sri Lanka.

It was now the fifth straight day of trying to document and wrap my head around the effects of this enormous natural disaster. I was tiring, fatigued, often frustrated with a lurking cloud of hopelessness.

Driving around Galle, I vaguely recall coming across this shattered landscape, yet I do remember now being compelled to stop for a moment so I could ponder at its uniqueness — everything was shattered to ruin other than two religious statues located in a front yard temple.

I only took a few photographs, never editing any of the five frames until this one just now, 10 years later.

A certain tom emanates from this moment that I cannot quantify in words — walls, toppled like Lego blocks, a boat, driven by force inland nearly 1 kilometer reseting in the background as if it were a parked car, metal rebar exposed from concrete, snapped like cheep wooden chopsticks while a small box of clothing gathered by a survivor rests in a box, red pants exposed with what appears to be a pink shirt on top — all strewn about two sacred statues still facing towards the sea.

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