The Way We Sleep

The Way We Sleep

2009

The artist’s former bed, charcoal & graphite

54” x 75” x 24”

As part of the group exhibition Detroit: Breeding Ground, curated by Chris Samuels, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI

The Way We Sleep

This is the old bed that my girlfriend Amanda and I inherited from our  friend Derek in St. Louis when she was in college. We had inherited a new bed from our then roommate at the time, Greg, and I wanted to commemorate our former crappy bed by setting it on fire. Instead of a large bonfire performance, I opted instead to mask out the areas that Amanda I would sleep on our bed, her on her side and me laying flat on my back, and then selectively burned and darkened the bed with charcoal and graphite.

— Andy T