Obituary

Goya's etching of a man asleep at his desk while owls and bats circle became the image of every late-night doomscroll and every decision made at 3am. It died when 'the sleep of reason' stopped producing monsters and started producing tweets.

Portrait: Francisco de Goya · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Born

2016

Died

2020

Cause of death

Slept on the job

Last sighting

A 'me at 3am' edit, 2020

Resting place

Section I, Row 2

Category

art