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The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archeology, Freud
Dreams are the Guardians of Sleep
wood, metal, plexiglass, pillow, pillowcase
32 ' x 72" x 30"
2013

The final part of the installation is a bench/vitrine/museum case. The functional bench is constructed like the old-fashioned cases one might find in a natural history museum, and designed based on photos of Freud’s actual couch. At one end, a plexiglass vitrine contains a stained pillow—signaling a parallel between the way that our dreams are captured and offered for analysis, interpretation and meaning, and the way archeological objects, which Freud collected, are displayed under glass.