I am frequently asked: 'What does insomnia look like?'
I made that up; I've never been asked that but never mind... artistic license and all that.
In my case insomnia looks like my ceiling. I'm pretty lucky in that outside my flat are some Belisha beacons and street lighting, when I leave my blinds open the various lights create interesting shapes on the ceiling.
At 3.30 this morning I decided, instead of just looking at it, to photograph it; the resulting images are shown below. I've played with the exposure of all three and the colour balance in the blue one but other than that they are a true representation of my ceiling which is what insomnia looks like to me!
The weird thing is though, that when you decide to photograph and write about your insomnia it ceases to be insomnia.
It becomes inspiration.
Jan Nieupjur discovered this paradox many years ago when formulating his principles of Abstract depressionism (blog passim), although all of his resulting images were black, black, black!
Insomnia No:1
Insomnia No:2
Insomnia No:3
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