SLEEP
SEEKER

Sleep Seeker started as an alter ego. A way for the art to exist on its own, separate from the person making it. The work got louder and the name stuck. Behind it is Zorn Crowder, a Muncie, Indiana artist who's been building this world for years.

The style is rooted in the mid-80s through the late 90s, what Zorn calls the "cultural boom." Bright colors, mixed cultures, street art and graffiti. He grew up in downtown Muncie surrounded by graffiti artists and tattoo parlors, and that energy never left. He layers paint one color at a time, building each piece with a technique that echoes screen printing.

The characters started with a mistake. A doodle gone wrong that became a second set of eyes, then a second face. It stuck because it meant something: "We have this face that we have to reconcile what we want to say before it comes out of our mouth. That's where the second face comes from. You're looking at two different sets of eyes. Somebody that struggles with who they are."