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Art on the Underground Daria Martin’s Daydream Survey

LONDON.- As part of a series of artworks commissioned for the Jubilee line, Daria Martin has undertaken a survey to discover passengers’ daydreams as they travel on the Jubilee line. Using a questionnaire designed in the 1970s by Auke Tellegen and adapted for her project, Martin conducted a face to face survey of 800 passengers at ten different Jubilee line stations in order to uncover their susceptibility to ‘absorption,’ i.e. to getting wrapped up in their own inner world or their subjective perceptions. Martin has also been visiting the Freud Museum, based near the North West end of the Jubilee line, and took photographic images of the objects on Freud’s desk. A selection of the varied responses to the questionnaire and to Martin’s simple question “What have you been daydreaming about on the Tube?” have been combined with the images of these objects from the Freud Museum to make a series of new, poster based, artworks. These will be presented across the Tube network from