my new painting “myoclonus”

i get myoclonic jerks late at night when i’m trying to sleep. i take a klonopin so they don’t escalate into a tonic clonic, but it takes ~40 minutes for it to kick in. my eyes start fluttering uncontrollably and i have to hold them open so i don’t slip into a TC.

three photos of me overlayed to create the reference image. part of my ongoing epilepsy series