In Losing Sleep, I Painted.

This series chronicles Mary Jhun’s intimate struggle with sleep, disrupted by the very machine meant to heal her. Through the lens of her signature figures, The Girls, Jhun explores her uneasy relationship with the CPAP—a treatment for Sleep Apnea—unraveling the delicate threads between dreams, their hidden metaphors, and the restless nights that shape them. Over three months, she documented the weight of irregular sleep, the sting of tearful awakenings, and the slow descent into idiopathic insomnia. In its entirety, the series becomes her answer to a haunting question: What does it mean to be tethered to something meant to save you, yet feel no relief?