There is an interesting story behind this photo of a photo exhibit. If I had to use one word to describe my experience here, it would be “frustrating.”

This is inside a building at Wendover Airfield. The structure is probably left over from World War 2. It had been refurbished and was in good condition. The building is called “Land Use Interpretive Center #2.” There might have been a modest sign saying so on the building’s exterior, but I can’t remember for sure. Its only door was secured with a cipher lock. Thus a casual visitor to Wendover Airfield would have no idea what was inside and would not care.

Somehow I found out about it, perhaps by talking to people in the museum in the airfield’s Operations Building (airport terminal). The person I talked to told me about the display and gave me the code for the cipher lock

Once inside, had to figure out how to operate the yellow thing, which I will call a kiosk for lack of a better term. It had no controls with which to turn it on or operate it. It was weird and frustrating. The element of user-friendliness was entirely absent. I though that the set-up was a poor way to communicate.

Eventually I got the thing to work, perhaps by getting close to it. It played a recording that explained the purpose of the photos (another element lost by poor memory). After viewing all the photos, I left, feeling somewhat disoriented.