My son’s bed, 2007

This picture reminds me of Tracey Emin’s My Bed that was short listed in1999 for the Turner Prize. She didn’t win.

I reckon that with this effort my son would have had a much better chance! The original Emin bed was an uninspiring white; my son’s bed, on the other hand, is a riot of colour … or maybe just a riot!

I can almost see the description in the Exhibition’s Catalogue. It reads,

‘My Son’s Bed is an exciting metaphor for the second law of thermodynamics illustrating that in a closed system (the bed) without external energy fed in from outside (any attempt by son to actually tidy up), 'mixed-upness' (more properly called ‘entropy’) always increases.’