“This piece developed out of a problem. The problem was that I wanted to recreate the massive excavation that I had done in Miami at Locust Projects. At the CAC in Cincinnati, a Zaha Hadid designed building, excavating the floors of the museum was not possible. Instead of cutting a hole in the ground, I created a massive pile of the thousands of objects that were previously shown in the floor excavation piece. Although the excavation site gave an idea of something being uncovered, this arrangement had the opposite effect. It appeared as I thought the objects had been disregarded as if they were the waste products of our current lives. For me, looking at archeology, there are often things that past cultures have thrown away, and I thought that was a curious and poignant connection to make between the past and the present.” - Daniel Arsham