Sleep patterns

December 19, 2010

Recent works have been built from daily activity charts and my nightly EEG sleep data, which I’ve captured and downloaded for almost a year now. I look for real statistics which have inherently familiar proportions, numerical progressions and pacing that mirrors an organic yet ordered human experience. A colleague in the Quantified Self has shared a detailed record of his daily activities tracked in 10 minute intervals, over 24 hours, for the past 5 years. I’m working from the notion that attention span and sleep patterns are a way to reverse engineer brain pattern.

This work was shown at Edward Cella Art and Architecture gallery in Los Angeles. Feb 12 – Apr 2, 2011. CLICK image to see them bigger.

Laurie Frick walking through installation at Edward Cella Gallery in Los Angeles. Show comes down April 6, 2011.

Installing in the gallery on a 12 ft ladder, gives a feel for the scale.

Installation at Edward Cella, Feb 2011. Bumpy World is in the second gallery space.

Detail - Language of Sleep, 2010 | approx 8 ft x 8 ft

Language of Sleep, 2010 | wall and floor piece

Bumpy world - site specific installation

Detail - little boxes on floor of bumpy world installation

Fennetic Sleep 1, 2010 | 24" x 24"

Fennetic Sleep 2, 2010 | 24 in x 24 in

35 nights in Charlotte, 2010 | 48" x 48"

Initial sleep study, 2010 | 48" x 48"

Daily time slices of MF, 2010 | 48" x 48"

Nightly sleep scores, 2010 | 48" x 48"

Daily activities of LF, 2010 | 48" x 48"

Daily activities of LF, 2010 | detail

Daily activities of LF, 2010 | detail

Daily activities of BL, 2010, 72" x 72", wood, pigment, adhesive

Daily activities of BL, straight on, 2010, 72" x 72", wood, pigment, adhesive