Sleep Aids
By <a href="https://axisweb.org/artist/hennyburnett"
title="Henny Burnett"
class="inline font-bold underline transition-opacity duration-100 hover:opacity-50 focus:opacity-50">
Henny Burnett
</a>
2024
- Sculpture
- Installation Art
- Mixed Media
- Personal Narratives & Identity
- Social & Political
- Health & Wellness
- Heritage & Archives
- Domesticity
- Domestic
- Stories
- Salvaged Materials
- Found Objects
- Materiality
- Maternal
- Sculpture
- Sleep
Dimensions
23 x 33 x 8cm
‘Sleep Aids’ is based on old stories about ways of keeping warm at night: heated bricks placed in beds, and tickling feet with hairbrushes. The bound hot water bottle is based on ancient ideas of babies being swaddled to help maintain body temperature and help them sleep.
Materials: rubber hot water bottle, latex bands, child's hairbrush & London brick.
photo credit @adrian_flower
photo credit @adrian_flower
photo credit @adrian_flower
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