Pisican in the Basket – Sleeping, Exposure, and Domestic Stillness | Multispecies Diaries #4

Описание: In this episode of Multispecies Diaries, I filmed Pisican sleeping in a plastic basket by the window. Unlike Jinx and Boncuk, Pisican is the laziest one in the house—he noticed me filming but remained indifferent, accustomed to my presence. He slept face-down, belly exposed, as if declaring trust in the safety of this space.

For me, sleep is often nothing more than a tool: a way to store energy in order to get through the next day. Lately, I even find myself bored by the idea of sleeping at night, wishing I could skip it altogether. If sleep feels like a means rather than an end for me, what does it mean for Pisican? Is it a chosen act of rest, or rather something endured when there is nothing else to do within the confines of domestic life?

For Pisican, who sleeps more than the others, does this long, exposed sleep signal comfort, resignation, or a negotiation with captivity? How do we interpret a belly exposed to the world: as vulnerability, intimacy, or defiance?

By observing Pisican’s sleep alongside my own uneasy relation to it, we encounter the blurred lines between habit and necessity, comfort and confinement, trust and indifference. Sleep, often invisible as a social act, becomes here a lens into the politics of domestic multispecies life—at once a personal rhythm and a shared negotiation of space, time, and possibility.