The Urban Napping Device was conceived as a means of placing my resting body into a portion of the urban landscape where 1) we normally enact public vs. private personas and 2) where its presence would question the validity of the spatial designations on either side of it. Parking spaces became ideal sites for the type of intervention that I envisioned as they allow individuals to legally acquire spaces in populated areas and frequently border areas that are designated as “public” areas- areas of individual transient use where pedestrians enact an anonymous, public front. In a California-style parking space I could parallel park, feed the meter, and get 2 hours of time for which the space was mine. From this position I could cantilever my body over the adjacent sidewalk in a hammock and rest, read, take naps, etc, interjecting enactions of private self into a questionable public realm. As the hammock does not completely obstruct the sidewalk, the ownership of airspace is questionable, and the purchased “right” to the parking space from which my body is an extension is unquestioned, it is unclear to most pedestrians whether I am napping or loitering.