When I researched the science of sleep, I found information about our internal clocks within the normal 24 hour cycle, which is known as our circadian rhythm. This just cycles between alertness and sleepiness, helping regulate our sleep-wake cycle. Also, the process of interpreting light starts in our retina, when it gets exposed to light, it sends a signal to an area of the brain that can make us either feel wide awake or drowsy. Light travels from the retina to the suprachiasmatic nucleus and then to the pineal gland, resulting in the degradation of SNAT. Melatonin production depends on SNAT activity.
Thinking of the eye and our internal clock, I knew I wanted to create an eye with a clock in it somehow. Afterwards I thought about my hammock. A hammock I always take naps on, it relaxes my mind and soul. Because I am able to see different views of the sky and sleep peacefully during nice weather. So I wanted to combine that all together. I came across an artist Rene Magritte, who does paintings of an eye with a different view in the iris, like a sky. I took inspiration from that and created a painting of an eye with the sky I usually see when I am laying on my hammock and making the pupil to represent our internal clock. The sky is usually a light blue with colors of purple and pink that sometimes run through because I go before sunset.
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