It is a transposition in the form of a video installation of the contents covered by the  thesis for an MphilI wrote for Plymouth University in 2019.

It is inspired by the traditional Buddhist text, the Laṅkāvatārasūtra (412 - 433 CE)  which offers a poetic and metaphoric language through which it is possible to glean an immediate intuitive and meditative understanding of what consciousness means for this philosophical tradition.                                   

The video installation includes and combines Western approaches on the topic of consciousness and attempts to transpose the conceptual meaning in the metaphoric visual language employed in the art work.

The metaphor utilized in the Sutra to explain ĀlayaVijñāna is the ocean with its waves: the ocean is the neutral storehouse consciousness; the wind corresponds to the agitated mind that produce concepts such as “I” and “other” which operate the discrimination that brings the subject-object duality. The wind’s agitation it is activated by the six senses spheres and in turn create experiences that are manifested by the waves, which are not recognized as objects made of the same substance as the ocean, but an independent nature is attributed to them. The Sutra suggests in poetic words that consciousness is a non- stop creative movement and teaches that, when the movement became settled and fixed, it makes us perceive distorted reality and lose the sense of unity.