Before attending art school, Shiff had struggled for a decade with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. When she was too weak to walk, she had to use a wheelchair. This experience of chronic illness was imprinted into her subconscious, and Dream Imprints is a visual representation of the mind-body connection. We cannot escape our experience; it always lingers somewhere and haunts our conscious or unconscious mind and, often, trauma will appear and reappear in our dreams. To represent this, Shiff created a small wheelchair out of nickel and leather and welded a small arm onto this tiny chair which is attached to a motor. She then buried the motor into a regular-sized bed pillow. As the wheelchair circles, it marks the pillow, leaving a trace of its existence just as our deepest most profound experiences mark us in countless ways. The wheelchair marks the pillow, making visible those traumas which we hold inside and are not visible in our everyday life, but appear in our dreams.