Sleep Spells - Every Exit is an Entrace
Silk dyed with chamomile and lavender, natural pigments, soft filling, headphones, sound (duration 12 min), 2023, variable dimensions

I once had a dog that mainly slept in doorways. Especially later in life, doorways were its preferred place of sleeping. I always had to cross over it when it lay, quite inconveniently in the doorway sleeping with its hair all loved off like a stuffed toy with soft filling.

A doorway is meant for transition, marking the beginning of one space and the border/end of another. Some doors have keepers, protecting and claiming space.  We rush through doors as we rush to sleep, but where does the dreamer go?

The day my dog died, it also took its departure in a doorway. We lay down to sleep as we lie down to die, and it is often in the night that sleep and death find us.

Perhaps to die like to sleep is one of the world’s most present moments.