Photo By Gail

When Heath Richardson came home from his trip to South America, he began having difficulty falling asleep. As he lay in his bed in his Kensington Garden flat, he would close his eyes and try to imagine sheep, leaping over a fence like when he was a small boy.

One after another, he envisioned them leaping gracefully over the white-washed fence as he counted them. When he was a child, he would fall asleep after counting four or five sheep. But as an adult, he could reach 98 or so sheep before he would give up and have a bit of whiskey. And then he thought about his favorite animal that he saw on his trip; the sloth. He closed his eyes once more, and started counting the sheep again. Before he got to two, the sheep were replaced by a single levitating sloth with glowing yellow eyes. He finally fell asleep.

Art and Story by Travis Louie. Photographed at Harman Projects Gallery on the Lower East Side.