I started to look more at Insomnia and looking at different ways to portray the struggle with it, so I created a photo by overlaying two photographs I took (as seen on the left) I darkened the image to create the feeling of it being night, the dull expression shows how the action of struggling for sleep is becoming a laborious task. I really liked the feel of this image and I also realised that Insomnia would be an interesting illness to study as it is one illness where the word is overused but still not understood. I furthered these images by retaking the with the subject showing different emotions an looking in different directions and I photo shopped these together in a similar way that I did with the other emotion pictures.
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I also took two images, one of the subject laying back off a chair screaming ( so when turned up the right way it gave the appearance of falling or drowning and another neutral position image, I over laid these two together to show that having insomnia can feel like you are drowning on the inside but you have to just put on a brave face and get on with daily life. I also photographed it underwater to really give the drowning impression, but the ink disintegrated in the water...
To gain some background knowledge about insomnia i created a research page, I research into the causes and treatments and the symptoms that can occur after these treatments begin, I also did a quick search of some artwork that uses insomnia as its theme but nothing I found really stood out for me, this is when I felt like I should take my work onto a more personal level. I knew that my brother had suffered with insomnia for a long period of time and he had never really expressed himself or how it made him feel, so I thought that having him talk about it would hep him find a way to deal with it and it would also give me some more research into what I could do as an art project.
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