In bed with Leonard Baby

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Leonard Baby’s “factory setting” is lying in bed: at any opportunity, the 29-year-old American artist climbs under his striped percale cotton blankets. “It’s where I sleep, scroll on my phone, cry, have sex,” he says. “And it’s where I paint sometimes.” 

Last year he spent even more time there, when a break-up found him holed up for almost six weeks….