Title
Date of Degree
2011
Document Type
thesis
Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Department
Art
First Advisor
James Snitzer
Abstract
Why do we keep things? To remember.
Bedside tables are our modern-day altars, places where habit, respect, mystery, and love collide. Our physical materials wait while we travel through dreams, coaxing us back into activity come morning. Books and remote controls summon sleep, alarm clocks and written reminders startle the mind into a wakeful state. But not all objects are directly linked to sleeping or waking; some things simply exist to comfort us, reflecting our need to gather, collect, and nest.
Pages
vi, 35
Copyright
Copyright 2011 Allison Welch
Recommended Citation
Welch, Allison Pearl Snow. "Necessity and nostalgia." master's thesis, University of Iowa, 2011.
http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1107.
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