sweet Dreams

How Immigrants Contributed to the Growth of Civilizations…
There are no sweet dreams on these beds, but rather nightmares about the flight and the journey here, where sometimes there are not even bunk beds available... The 'pillows on the beds' are cushions used when splitting marble from the bedding of the mountain. When flat, metal 'pillowcases' are hung on an iron wire between the saw cuts and then inflated under high pressure to form a convex cushion. Marble has a crystal structure, so it breaks easily.
This marble extraction technique dates back to the past and is still used today alongside the roar of all those modern machines driving around there.
For me, the cushions are a symbol of the way we deal with the labor, the skills, the knowledge of the makers, the diggers, those who shape the things around us. And ignoring matter, which we consist of and create everything from