Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
–Wallace Stevens, from “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour”

Upon rereading these words in late 1991, the artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres realized that some deep memory of them lay behind his decision, earlier that year, to photograph his own empty double bed.

Submitted by Anne Umland, Senior Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture