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The only reason I would say no to it being used as a headboard is because of the angry mood/colors that are used in it. It IS a beautiful piece of art I just dont know that it is the kind of soothing art you want to wake up to.

Maybe, but with a more peaceful color pallette.

No!!!! This is a terrible conservation problem for the painting! Leaning back against the painting (and potentially puncturing the canvas), having oily hair touching it.... disastrous for the art.

why not just mural the wall?

i agree, it has an angry mood, high energy -not good for the bedroom. and i also agree, it could easily be damaged therem and you'd have to be was too careful of everything you did in bed. no fun.

Don't think I could handle that one eyeball watching me sleep, but a less edgy mural could be neat.

I recall seeing in a magazine (that I've since lost) a photograph, blown up and mounted on some sort of board and used as a headboard. It was gorgeous.

i would have nightmares in that ed.

Interesting. I Really dig the night stands though.

Disturbing

There's something kinky and menacing about the nightstands.

That combined with that particular headboard must make for some intersting times.

We have a huge stretched canvas printed with a B&W photo of the Brooklyn Bridge as our headboard - I love it, and it's not real art, so we don't have to worry about conserving it - and it's light, so we don't have to worry if it falls on our heads in an earthquake. I agree with everyone else about the art in this photo though - it's so violent, not at all what I would want in my bedroom (or anywhere in my house, to be honest).

ugly....very ugly

At what point does Marilyn Manson enter the room and tuck you into bed?

1980...Family reunion. My older brother gave me a hit of mushrooms....twice the normal dose just to see what would happen....Hour 12 looked alot like this image.

nIGHT TABLES ARE ... uFFF... LIKe I'M in THE hOSPiTAL...

vERY DIsTurBiNG AND nOT rELAXiNG BEDrOOM..

i agree that this is not the kind of painting to share a bedroom with, but in general i like the idea. sure, paintings are not getting better when used as headboards, but then not every painting is meant to stay around forever, are they? or if yu want to use something that shuld be preserved - you can scan or photograph it, print it on canvas and have it as a headboard without damaging the original.

The idea of a painting as head board is good but not this one.

LOVE the tables. Where can I find them?

This looks bloody. Like a killer butcher sleeps here. The side tables are clever but they look like they contain rusty scalpels. The whole ensemble creeps me out.

I love the hospital tables. However, the combination of those with the montage of butchery directly behind the place where I will be sleeping will produce nightmares probably involving limb amputation.

By the way the artist who painted this piece is Jyrki Riekki, a young finnish artist who had a solo exhibition at Limn gallery 2006. I think that painting or any of his works are not made to be a backpiece to a bed but maby 50 inches higher so you can see the whole work..then why not! Check more of the artist`s work: www.jyrkiriekki.com
Nice installation though!! Something about blood...beautiful & very much alive..

Jyrki Riekki’s paintings are terrifically loud, energetic and furious. They are filled with critical power, alloyed with a genuine talent for painting. It is obvious that Riekki also works with performance, movements, exclamations and script. And beneath that script there lies a carnality that can be reminiscent of baroque painting. But cut and shaken up for our own brutal, frightening age; an age that Riekki ruthlessly continues to lambast in his three-dimensional objects, often with a streak of scorching black humour.

Måns Holst-Ekström,
Art critic