“The Punching bag is about the drop shape – the state of suspension. Punching bags are suspended from a wooden disk, against which the bag bounces. This disk suggests a halo, or a parasol. The object appears sheltered. That form seemed adaptable to a tomb, a shield, a bag of bones. As a tomb, the Punching Bag reclines, and the drop is shriveled, like a fallen fruit.”
Claes Oldenburg