Father Magin's Pillow

Title

Father Magin's Pillow

Description

One of the founders of the Santa Clara Franciscan monastery, Father Magin Català is said to have foreseen the coming of the Anglo-Americans, the railroad, the discovery of gold and the 1906 earthquake and fire, in dreams that came while he slept on his adobe pillow. This chair-sized pillow, fabricated from adobe with flakes of gold, steel particles and ash, alludes to those dreamlike prognostications of history. It is a playful element in the California Room, an area otherwise dedicated to serious historical research.

Location

5th Floor

California Room on the Fifth Floor

Creator

http://viaf.org/viaf/295149066359165600728

Chin, Mel, 1951-....