The Sleeping Face

The sleeping face as remedy


I’ve always loved sleeping faces — the contentment is contagious and just looking at one can disarm my anxieties.

Scared of dilution — or perhaps uncovering a trickery — I only have one sleeping face picture and it hangs six feet away from pillow. Illusion or deceit aside, I am a great proponent in sleeping faces as a remedy for stress. Here are three of my favorites:

The Rose Bower AKA Sleeping Beauty, 1890 Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Sleeping Child, Bernardo Strozzi
Young Man Sleeping, 2011, Asha Carolyn Young

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