'The nine conscious experiences of being' are self-portraits while experiencing those emotions depicted on the title.
It started in the summer of 2012, and took me 5 years to complete.
The most difficult part was that once I found myself in that emotion or feeling from 'the nine conscious experiences of being' and then had to rush to my studio, or where ever I could to sketch and paint on the go.
Several attempts, and many sketches got me to these set of paintings.
The self in our contemporary times is heavily influenced on social media, with platforms automatically depicting our person in the easiest way, I believe a 'selfie' means something deep from our own subconscious and more of a new way to reflect ourselves without a mirror.
The nine conscious experiences of being is in relation of getting aware of oneself and the experience of the feelings or emotions one goes through life.
Having a sense of selfhood or soul with in one self's emotions and come to terms with what triggers that as irrelevant, focusing only on the emotion itself.
Universal feelings or emotions that everyone at some point experience.