Just Fucking Sleep
Acrylic, spray paint, crushed sleep aids, NyQuil, embedded pills and drug-facts labels
Artist Statement
The title is the phrase I have always been yelled growing up and now when I cannot sleep.
Mixed media painting made alongside a manic poem. Over the counter sleep aids crushed and mixed into the paint. NyQuil and sleep aid mixed into the texture. Old sleep meds from my doctor, crushed into the paint. Actual sleeping pills, painted gold and silver and set into the surface. Embedded drug facts labels and packaging fragments.
Colors are deep purple, gold, and white with black speckling, built up in splattered and poured layers.
Part of the medication series. See also Stable Enough to Bloom, Take Me, Starting Over, and My Mind Was Never Mine To Control.