Sleep Spindles (1999)
Sleep Spindles is a multimedia installation I made in Spring 1999 for Professor David Hannah's collage course at Stanford University. The assignment was to create a multimedia work that made an invisible time-based process visible. I made Sleep Spindles by dyeing a white cotton bedsheet with cyanotype chemical then sleeping on it outdoors while wearing a portable EEG device to record my brainwave activity. As the cyanotype sheet was exposed to different levels of morning sunlight, it recorded the shadow of my sleeping positions as the undeveloped white areas of the print. I then hung the developed sheet on a wall and mapped different sections of my sleep wave patterns onto it with white map tacks and transparent fishing line.