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Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 4 2o18 Katy Beinart | Khlebosolny/Bread and Salt 27 The text of the advertisement was translated into Lithuanian, Russian and Hebrew, and it featured an email account we had set up temporarily (figure 13). We pinned the advertisement to the board, not with any real hope that we would get a response, but rather as a temporary memorial and marker of our ancestors’ former home. The inevitability that the salt would absorb into the grass and that the advertisements would get overlaid by other advertisements was an intentional part of the artwork and action. Anke Bangma has written about remembering as ‘an act in the present’ that does not just ‘reflect past reality “as it was” but acts upon reality by organizing it and attaching specific meaning to it.’37 This ongoing process of mediation in the present attaches specific meaning to memory through enacting it. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett suggests an understanding of heritage as something produced in the present but with recourse to the past. In her writings on the cultural production of heritage, she looks at heritage as something that is not “lost or found, 37 Anke Bangma and Steve Ruston (eds), Experience, Memory, Re-enactment (Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute; Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2005), p. 14. Figure 11-12: Katy and Rebecca Beinart, Ar pamenate i meisels?, 2012: Dowsing in Jatowska street, sprinkling salt on threshold. Photograph: Rebecca Beinart. Source: author. Figure 13: Katy and Rebecca Beinart, Ar pamenate i meisels? advert, 2012. Photograph: Katy Beinart. Source: author.