Howard Hughes, the millionaire aviator lived for four years at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nevada (Fig. 2). Hughes, who suffered from chronic pain and obsessive compulsive disorder resulting in extreme germaphobia, was living as a recluse who was only seen by his bodyguards and entourage. Hughes would call into the only local channel airing overnight at the time, KLAS-TV and request his favourite film - Ice Station Zebra (released in 1968, directed by John Sturges, starring Rock Hudson, Jim Brown, and Ernest Borgnine). When the channel would no longer acquiesce to his requests Hughes simply purchased the television station and ordered them to air the film on loop overnight. For the ten years that Hughes owned the station it would be a common occurrence to be flipping through the channels and see Ice Station Zebra on repeat. By creating this media loop, Hughes had perfected his own feedback system to help manage his condition: keeping himself in a suspended state of hyperreality. Through cumulative studio practice I am creating these same conditions of hyperreality to better understand the metaphysical experiences of epilepsy. Researching the impact of its mind altering effects on my art making decisions and process: choosing images in the fugue mode of making.