This multi-sensorial installation is the result of a series of workshops led by Staci Bu Shea and Mira Thompson. Together they explored how the private and intimate place of the bed is also a space in which we can contemplate our connection with the world beyond. Inspired by life generated from sleeping, dreaming, and illness, participants collaborated together to reflect on the materiality of subjectivity and the metaphysics of the bed. The bed is an intimate place–of course, for love-making–but mostly for its role in the formation of inner life in relation to the object world.
Special thanks to artist Feline Hjermind, who collaborated with Mira Thompson to make short video essays.
Image credit Toni Kritzer, Maybe it is the full moon, 2026, embroidered herb pillow with lavender, chamomile, mugwort [a photo of a white hand holding a small pillow to the sky. The pillow has embroidered text that reads "Maybe it is the full moon"