There is a unique space within us. A space from which we can see everything that takes place within and around us, without being entirely defined by it. It does not need to take sides, resist, compare or become something else in order to exist. It simply sees.
From this place, I can observe the different layers of my experience. The movement of emotions, the flow of thoughts, the many possibilities, directions and forms that shape the world I experience. I can see how they move, meet and sometimes pull in different directions. All of them are part of my experience, yet none of them alone defines the whole of who I am.
There is a difference between what I experience and the space from which I can see it. A thought can appear without becoming the only truth I recognise. An emotion can be fully felt without becoming my entire identity. I can be present in everything that happens, while remaining connected to something that is not limited by any single experience.
I think of this as an unconditioned space within us. It has no fixed form, no sides to choose and nothing to prove. It is not defined by circumstances or by the things that surround us. There is a sense of completeness in it, a quiet openness that does not depend on anything being different from what it is. Nothing needs to be added for it to be whole.
This does not mean stepping away from life. Quite the opposite. From this place, I can meet life more fully. I can experience my emotions, thoughts and relationships while remaining connected to a wider sense of being. There is room for everything, but also room to see beyond what is immediately in front of me.
This is where attention becomes especially important. What we give our attention to shapes the way we experience and create our reality. When attention rests only on what is already familiar, our possibilities can begin to feel limited to what we already know. But when we turn towards this deeper space within us, we begin to see differently. New perspectives emerge, and with them, new ways of feeling, understanding and choosing.
From this place, choice becomes more than a response to what is happening. It becomes an opportunity to consciously participate in what we create. We can remain unique individuals, with our own personalities and ways of expressing ourselves, while allowing something much more greater to move through us. Our individuality does not disappear. It becomes a way through which new possibilities take form.
Perhaps this is what it means to live from our original nature. Not to become someone else, but to experience ourselves from a place that is not limited by everything we can see, name or define. A place that holds both our individuality and the possibility of something limitless.
The colourful forms on the surface of this work carry something of this thought. They represent the possibility of bringing what exists beyond fixed structures into the world of form. Of allowing something open and limitless to find its own expression through us, taking shape in ways we may not have imagined.
This is what I wanted to express while painting this work: the quiet presence of the one who sees, the space from which everything becomes visible, and the possibility of consciously choosing what we bring into life.
Being disconnected from my original self does not mean that something essential has disappeared. It means that my attention is no longer resting in the life energy within me — in the part that sees and knows that there is always more than one way forward.