Antony Gormley's 'Bed' sculpture made from 8,640 slices of bread

Antony Gormley's 1980-81 sculpture 'Bed', made from 8,640 slices of Mother's Pride white bread, is featured in the Tate Modern collection. The artist used his mouth to bite and eat the bread to carve the negative shape of his body into the stacked slices. Gormley, who had a strong Catholic education, sees the body as a container for the invisible—feelings, thoughts, imagination, soul. The negative space in 'Bed' represents absence, which he calls 'the infinity of space inside the body.' The work uses material to speak of spirit, weight to speak of weightlessness, and light to speak of darkness. A recent video interview with the sculptor produced by the museum explores this lesser-known but significant piece.