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Wednesday · No.45
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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Jack’s sleeping pose at the desk in No.45 reflects the figure in Goya’s The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. The pose is the visual connection through which I read the whole image and its message in the scene: Jack is asleep, screaming, and dreaming of killing Wendy and Danny. The visual reference and the nightmare’s content work together.

In this image · No.45

Jack slumped at the desk is read as a compositional reference to Goya’s The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. The comparison concerns the image and its theme, without asserting documented production intent.

Goya: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, The Met