
Louise Bourgeois, from Insomnia Drawings

Louise Bourgeois, from Insomnia Drawings
June Jordan
vs
Tracey Emin
Sleep
1996
Monoprint and stitched label on cotton pillowcase
50 x 73 cm
Introduction to Best American Poetry, 1992

Tracey Emin – At Night, etching, 2010

The Insomnia Drawings by Louise Bourgeois, Daros/Scalo, Zurich, 20002 bound volumes in slipcase. Recto and verso reproductions of 220 drawings made by L.B. between November 1994 and June 1995 during sleepless nights.
I am a memory come alive. Hence also the inability to sleep.