Sleep is a painting by Salvadore Dali.
Here's what he has to say about it:
Sleep is a truly monstrous chrysalis, it's morphology and nostalgia propped on 11 crutches, each of which is also a chrysalis and should be examined seperately.
SPIRAL OF SLEEP
Sleep as a huge heavy head with a long thin body balanced on the crutches of reality.
If ever those crutches break we feel we are falling.
It is the familiar sense of tumbling into a vast vacancy at that moment when sleep overcomes us.
And when we suddenly awaken we may not necessarily always realise that we are reliving the feeling of expulsion that so traumatised us at birth.
