Original artwork description:

84x64 cm | Filler, oak frame

The question of -“who am I?”, can be followed by another, maybe more pertinent, one - “what the hell is everything else?” This work might refer to the term coined by philosopher David Chalmers - the hard problem of consciousness. It poses yet another question, why and how is it that we have subjective experience?

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that conscious experience takes place within the realm of language. The tiny fraction of our mind that is conscious awareness is somehow placed outside the physical world. The real problem is the hard kernel of reality. Language is wrapped around it like a thin coat of paint, but it never really enters it. This introduces a primordial split in our minds. One part is firmly founded in the physical reality but is somehow unaware of this and unaware of any subjective point of view. The other part is always fully aware that it is I, and no one else who experience, and that my experience is separated from everyone and everything else. The struggle to (re)unite these two parts is what makes up the foundation for all human desire.

Materials used:

Filler (coarse and fine) in oak frame

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