My recent art practice is about combining my consciousness with body, space, and time, in a meditative sense. I try to put myself in a position where I am fully aware of what I am doing. In a general sense, while I am making art I don't find it easy to concentrate fully on what I am doing, due to nature of the mind, which always moves into past and future thought. Whatever I paint my art works become half conscious and half unconscious during the process. When the piece is finished I am in a very different position to when I started. This caused me to raise the question ‘is the resulting concept generated by my artwork really what I wanted to create?’. It is very easy to lose oneself in past experiences and future imagination.

After this realisation, I started to concentrate in my art practice on creating conditions where I could fully engage myself in every part of work, even to the smallest detail, such as my breathing. These conditions allow me to be conscious and understand every movement of my thought, body, in time and space. Being conscious with my present position and engaging in every breath and thought, I became concerned with the micro detail of my art work. How I use materials in my practise, such as mixing oil and water based paints, demands that I act in a fast but controlled manner to realise the desired concept. Philosophically, being a conscious being is to have awareness of self existence and of the entire universe. In being conscious we have to be completely aware, physically and mentally. This is the only way for me to understand the two different worlds, of physical existence and spiritual sensation.

Even with the level of civilisation that we have reached in the twenty-first century, we still live in the unconscious world where we are still facing problems. Knowledge is supposed to contribute and serve society. This rarely happens because most of people who lead the world are not conscious of their responsibilities. Knowledge is used to make money, to establish dictatorships in our society. In our competitive contemporary world we think that we can improve our life by improving our technology. But our desires and needs are not fulfilled by material and technical achievements alone. We are conscious of our problems but we are unconscious of how to act to improve our situation.

For me, from the first act of making the wooden bars for a canvas, to making the three dimensional depth in the centre of the canvas, to cutting and pasting strips of newspaper, to the tiny three dimensional bubbles and cracks in the paint, through all this technical practise I am able to engage with the process and through this I am able to achieve the correct conciousness. During the process of making I think of something I left behind, and then of going toward the future. However my consciousness of my body, of space and time, never allow me to fully leave my present position. Centralizing in my artworks allows for a journey form somewhere to nowhere.