Hasana Johnson
Edward Weston "Neil Asleep"
1925, Gelatin Silver Print.
Edward Weston is a photographer from Illinois and I found this photo of this young boy interesting because, When I was young, sometimes I'd cry myself to sleep, and the couch was the only place that comforts me. I'd sink inside with tears in my eyes and then fall fast asleep. I didn't understand what the couch meant to me until for 4 days it held me. As I cried every night and worried for my mother's life, the couch would comfort me. In my senior year when college was near, and the stress was up to my ears, my couch, it would comfort me. 2 years in college, late nights running wild, at 5 am my couch was there to catch me. Now as an adult, I see why Neil sleeps in a posture of fatigue yet shows so much peace. It's because no matter what you go through, the couch is always comforting.
