Well I think there's something paradoxal, opposite in the act of sleeping with informatical stuff. Finding confort in what's after all, when everything is off, just carcasses of plastic. So it's this idea that I wanna put in form when I work with this imagery. This feeling of confort you get even when the light can be too much and bother you, the voices, the sound you hear keeps you in this other world where you can escape. I find it really special.
It applies to me as a child watching TV as I was having an identity crisis, like I used this memory to work on Sleeping humans. It also makes sense now, as I am used to sleep with either my phone, my PC, it takes its place on my bed with me as it used to be stuffed animals (I was afraid of them becoming skeletons in my sleep, we can make a comparison now, with electronical stuffs are turning off maybe it's still a thing that bothers me). Maybe it's an interesting POV. Whatever, to represent how my (our?) relationship with sleep and things in my bed (here electronical) I did this work which I named electrosheep, a wordplay between electronical, sleep and sheep because there's a thing with sleep,
Un lien se démarque entre des êtres vivants qui dorment - un état d’entre deux - et des objets morts : des déchets, des carcasses : “Nous sommes des carcasses en puissance” Francis Bacon. Ce qui m’a particulièrement interessé c’est la relation entre le numérique, l’artificiel et le besoin primaire du sommeil.
There's a strong link between human living people who are asleep in an inbetween state where you're conscious but alsonot aware of anything that is happening around you. And unanimate objects, when they're off it even seems like carcasses, "We are meat, we are potential carcasses" Francis Bacon.