This piece is a reflection on Buddhist notions of the 'self' as an illusion, ultimately a construct, and the scientific fact that what we perceive ourselves to be is often limited to just one level of information.

On a subatomic level, we are made up of bits of information that assemble into more complex phenomena. With a non-linear extra-dimensional view of time, we can mathematically observe how 'objects' don’t really exist, and everything is actually a process, subtending toward entropy. The self is a similar phenomenon, an evolving, changing process rather than a fixed idea or entity.

Notions of identity become complex when viewed from this lens and begin to take on psychedelic qualities, embodying paradox and dissolving into nothingness. Nothingness is also an important zen concept.

The artwork plays with these understandings of self by representing information on many levels, including an optical illusion. From a distance, the image appears to the eye as a solid shape, before closer inspection reveals a complex myriad of smaller shapes making up the larger form.
– Kamil Hassim