Sleep Drawings (2015-2016)

Sleep Drawings is a photographic body of work,

which studies the movement of the human body

in the state of sleep. Each photograph is taken by

mounting the camera above the subject’s bed and

exposing the film for the entire period of the

individual’s night of sleep. The negatives are then

scanned and edited for their portrayal of realism,

graphic quality, movement, stillness, and

elements of the unexpected.

This ongoing body of work was inspired by the

idea of using the camera's ability to condense the

passage of time as well as to document how the

human body moves during the process of sleep.

As the project has evolved, it has grown from an

anthropological study of the human body to an

inquiry of how dreams physically manifest

themselves. The images provided a perspective

both intimate and voyeuristic, and ideally evoke

the viewers’ personal experience of dreams, sleep,

and movement across states of consciousness.