A letter signed: “Your Mum Aug.´89”, found hidden in the back of a second hand desk in Dresden, led to studying a peace demonstration (Sopron, Hungary, August 1989), known as the Pan-European Picnic. This picnic indirectly contributed to the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, and initiated the extension of the EU. Size: Frame 10x17, 5 cm Location: letter dates August 1989. Found in Dresden 2013. Photograph and translation Sandra Collée 2016 UK.

An advertisement contacts people in Germany that might escaped over the Hungarian-Austrian border in 1989 during this event. A further research will take place about this event in relation to the UK leaving the EU and the changes that will follow in the freedom of movement.