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Part one of two pieces I did for my drawing major project. Here it is next to the other piece:

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This is about my very real problem of getting to sleep at night. I lie in bed for hours, unable to turn my mind off, mentally vocalising anything and everything from hypothetical conversations to every song in the world in a continuous monologue of thought. Its very annoying haha

I don't call myself an insomniac because a) its partly self inflicted by drinking coffee at night and b) I have no trouble sleeping in if the day allows it. Its just stopping my head from whirring around a million miles a minute that's the problem.

With this piece I wanted to convey the feeling that silence can be heavy and deafening, if that makes sense. The quiter it is, the more you can hear yourself and all your unfinished thoughts. Before you've finished one sentence, your mind is on to the next.

I actively listened to Silverchair' If You Keep Losing Sleep for this, for obvious reasons lol, and I wanted to call it that but decided against it. All the little details and bleeps in that song came through in the top I think, as well as the flying spirals of sheep These lyrics:

If you keep losing sleep
over other lovers
If you keep losing me
Youre gonna be bored

You're a tombstone in the mud
Playing Twister in a bubble
Again

whilst being pretty much nonesense, are very accurate descriptions of the essence of sleeplessness. Playing Twister in a bubble - its hilarious, but it's so much like that!

Anyway, it's watercolour paper inked black and then chalk, pencil and liquid paper. I'm not actually bald, and that doesn't really look like me (the eyes and nose do apparently). Hope you like it!

Description
Part one of two pieces I did for my drawing major project. Here it is next to the other piece:

[link]

This is about my very real problem of getting to sleep at night. I lie in bed for hours, unable to turn my mind off, mentally vocalising anything and everything from hypothetical conversations to every song in the world in a continuous monologue of thought. Its very annoying haha

I don't call myself an insomniac because a) its partly self inflicted by drinking coffee at night and b) I have no trouble sleeping in if the day allows it. Its just stopping my head from whirring around a million miles a minute that's the problem.

With this piece I wanted to convey the feeling that silence can be heavy and deafening, if that makes sense. The quiter it is, the more you can hear yourself and all your unfinished thoughts. Before you've finished one sentence, your mind is on to the next.

I actively listened to Silverchair' If You Keep Losing Sleep for this, for obvious reasons lol, and I wanted to call it that but decided against it. All the little details and bleeps in that song came through in the top I think, as well as the flying spirals of sheep These lyrics:

If you keep losing sleep
over other lovers
If you keep losing me
Youre gonna be bored

You're a tombstone in the mud
Playing Twister in a bubble
Again

whilst being pretty much nonesense, are very accurate descriptions of the essence of sleeplessness. Playing Twister in a bubble - its hilarious, but it's so much like that!

Anyway, it's watercolour paper inked black and then chalk, pencil and liquid paper. I'm not actually bald, and that doesn't really look like me (the eyes and nose do apparently). Hope you like it!