That night, as I flew back to England, robbers had broken into my sister's house, where my wife and daughter were staying, and shot my sister's husband six times while next door my wife hid in the bathroom shaking and a few feet away my daughter lay under the sheets sleeping through the whole uproar.
People lying under the mattresses.
About 20,000 years ago, much of North America lay under the Laurentide Ice Sheet, a massive glacier more than 3 kilometers thick in some locations.
Early on, Burden's work was performance, excruciatingly physical actions that came to a halt in 1974, when he spent forty-five hourstraightht lying under a sheet of plate glass.
"I think there's a meditative quality to some of his earlier performances, particularly Doomed, where he's lying under a sheet of glass for three days," says Dewey. "And I think you could also say in sculptures like Urban Light, there's a bit of a meditative quality to them".
I lay under the crisp white sheets, warmed by a tartan blanket, trying to read but really just imagining the passing landscape, not wanting to sleep... 6am: somewhere outside Plymouth.
OF THE 53 corpses lying under a plastic sheet in a warehouse in Srbica in central Kosovo, at least half were those of women, children and old men.
The woman's body lay under a sheet on the darkened Brooklyn sidewalk, one all-white Adidas sneaker, one black sock.
It dates back 70-odd million years to a time when the Cape lay under a sheet of ice.
Bodies covered in sheets were piled up at makeshift morgues or lay under the blazing sun on a beach popular with tourists.
Another boulder, which Mr. Childs estimates weighed three tons, broke away this summer and now lies under a sheet of icy snow near the driveway, across from the house.
