Laurie Frick is an artist who tracks her sleeping patterns and turns it into art. At first, Frick felt embarrassed to leave social events early to say it was past her bedtime, but through her work she realized that sleep affects everything about you. To get her sleep results she wears and EEG headband, this records her data every night. To create Frick’s drawings, she places her data into an Excel spreadsheet.

Each horizontal line represents one night of sleep. Each chart, and drawing, shows roughly a month of sleep. Frick also uses different colors to show the different stages of sleep. For example, she translates light sleep into white, and folds up sections on the piece to create a three-dimensional effect.

Frick taught me about light sleep, which she calls trash sleep. She states how light sleep is the bridge between being awake and being asleep. Sleep and art combined create a new way for people to try and understand what their mind does when their body is asleep. Frick says that art is a way to talk about sleep, to look at it. It’s not so tech like medicine or health, it is part of who you are. Frick’s artwork has many viewers, including myself, interested in conducting their own sleep data in order to better understand their future.

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