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Experiments with the bed

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Experiments with the Mattress/Bed

I’ve been thinking a lot about beds. In The Decision Between Us, John Paul Ricco discusses a note taken by Freud shortly before his death “psyche is extended – knows nothing of it”. Ricco ties this to the idea of a physicalized Psyche, laying in a semi conscious state, and viewed from beyond their slumber by an audience that is aware of Psyche without them being aware of themselves.

In playing with a mattress, I also was thinking about the idea of mattresses (when not in rooms, or even in rooms but naked) as symbols of transience. There’s a slight repulsion to the old dirty mattress on its own. The bed is seen as a safe space and a vulnerable mattress on its own (which usually occurs when one is moving or throwing it out) feels disturbing or unsightly. And so, I’ve been grappling with this idea of mattresses vs beds, safety vs instability. Does the foam look at its denuded skin in repulsion and fear, or does it look at the skin dressed up in sheets with a desire to be in and of itself?

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Chair Process

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Chair and Ottoman

I took the legs off
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Continuation of the table

In writing about this table for my seminar class, I’ve been thinking about when a table stops becoming a table. I had scraped the surface of this table but I still use it as a table in my studio. And so, I thought about rather than stopping at the surface, going straight through.

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In the Studio

I’ve been peeling the armchair in my studio. It is slow going. My studio is beginning to turn into a synthetic bedroom (kind of cozy, but also very dusty, and maybe not one you would want to spend lots of time in). It’s wild to me that these dusty, flaking, off gassing chemical products are the things that we sit on, sleep on and surround ourselves with.

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Beds

Over the holiday, I read The Decision Between Us by John Paul Ricco. He talks a lot about beds, unmade beds as scenes of intimacy and of spacing. Around the same time that I was reading about beds, I acquired an old and uncomfortable mattress that turned out to be filled with four layers of foam. I’m now thinking about the bed as a body, and what makes the bed the bed (right now the mattress is without its cover, but is still a whole object, minus some foam layers). I’m also really interested in Bernard Faucon’s Rooms of Love, and the focus on beds sometimes with and sometimes without humans in them. Beds occupying rooms.

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Up close with foam

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Your Weight is What I Love