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Danica  Davies  



Danica  Davies  
    These “sleep-drawings” were created during short daytime sleep episodes that I experience because I have Narcolepsy. During these short daytime sleep episodes, I often draw and write things while unconscious. Sometimes I draw things that I'm dreaming about during the sleep attack, and other times I'm not quite sure what my sleep drawings are about.

Line comparison: Left - Consciously drawn pickle. Right - Sleep-drawn pickle. While outlining numbers on a dart board, the 8 turned into a friendly little creature. O is a face, L is also R, D is unfinished - E at the end has a tail! I wrote "Crowd below stage goes" then in my sleep I wrote "to mostly still until u can trust me 100%" In my sleep the back of the chair turned into an ear. I painted the background colors of this image while awake, and a couple days later I drew the little horned creature in my sleep. The poorly drawn words say it all, "I fell asleep while drawing the birds." The baby birds look a little mutated and I don't know where the mother bird's bonnet came from. I drew this odd alien creature after I had fallen asleep during a math class. I think the creature had a cigarette in its mouth. The end of the cursive "s" turned into an arm with a hand at the end! In my sleep, I drew a tail coming out of this man's head. This was a part of the process I went through to make my Fabalu$ Deck of Playing Cards. This sleep-drawing is one of my favorites, because I fell asleep while drawing myself falling asleep. This poor character's nipples are either showing through or on top of his shirt because I fell asleep while drawing his outlines. In my sleep I made one of his hands morphed into a tentacle, and I drew small circular objects being dispensed out of that tentacle hand. The characters in this drawing were all supposed to be holding hands and using the power of friendship to defeat the antagonist of the story. In my sleep, I drew a bottle spinning in the middle of the circle which automatically turned the characters' activity into playing spin-the-bottle. I also drew one of the characters looking up at me. This drawing has four sections for the four different seasons. In the Summer (yellow) season, I drew steaks on the ground in my sleep, as well as a lightly-drawn woman gardening on the hill in the background of the Spring (green) season. This is "Catt-Butt". It was supposed to be the side view of a human but in my sleep I added a cat head. All of this one was drawn while I was asleep. They are 3 kids in Halloween costumes. The writing in the right hand corner of this drawing is what I drew while asleep. I wrote "Hand on a Stick", and underneath that, in my sleep, I wrote, "on a steak!" I also drew the bandaid in the right upper corner under the word "ENOUGH" in my sleep, and it has a small white drawing of poop in the middle of it. I was drawing this square that was to go with 3 other squares as the beginning of a small comic strip. While I was making the outlines thicker, I fell asleep and added a section to this square, and added a small window to this section which was the beginnings of a house. I erased the parts of the face I had drawn in my sleep, only to fall asleep again and draw a new face for this man, except his skin was melting o. I wanted to draw an angry boy using the computer. Instead, I drew him looking a little sad or confused with the chair back being his actual back, thinking, "No one is every online anymore..." I wrote the text on the right in my sleep. It says, "Paper does/doesn't matches don't know how to let your children four. In my sleep I made the letter H look like it was made out of raggedy pieces of wood. This strange character appeared in my sketchbook during a morning lecture. The tube in her mouth is supposed to go to a backpack full of water on her back.
DANICA DAVIES 2024 / ILLUSTRATOR, ARTIST, & MAKER  / FLORIDA, USA