blog posts Sculpture of Thoreau’s cabin looks at artifice of objects Oct 5, 2016 9:45 am by Jodi HeckelCampus Life Share on Facebook Tweet Email Images “I was interested in it as a symbolic object, as a destination,” Illinois art professor Conrad Bakker said of the cabin at Walden Pond. “I’m also interested in how a fake thing can hold the place of a real thing.” Share on Facebook Tweet Email