The name of this sculpture transfers to a famous poem of Michelangelo, "The Night":

"Caro m'è 'l sonno, e più l'esser di sasso,
mentre che 'l danno e la vergogna dura;
non veder, non sentir m'è gran ventura;
però non mi destar, deh, parla basso."
Rime, 247 (1546)

FROM THE ITALIAN OF MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI

"Sleep likes me well, and better yet to know
I am but stone. While shame and grief must be,
Good hap is mine, to feel not, nor to see:
Take heed, then, lest thou wake me: ah, speak low."
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)

Wood, acrylic paint, 200 x 150 x 80 cm, 2016. Collection of The Museum of 20th-21th Century St.-Petersburg Art.