Nothing to do with the band Nirvana mind you.

If you don't know what Nirvana means, its a buddhist state of mind/being. Its the epitome of being in fact, for buddhists to reach this is the highest state of being, higher then an eternity in heaven. In a nutshell it means that you reach such a high state of mind that you become everything all at once. And thus cease to exist, however you continue to exist in everything. You become the universe, the life force which drives the universe.

In this painting I was trying to express a feeling I had once, which to me could only be described as approaching Nirvana. I felt suddenly at peace and comfortable. I cannot express it in words, I can barely express it with paint, I am sure I could do much more to this painting but I am trying to submit it to a self portrait student show coming up and entries are due next week. So in the constraints of now prepping it and getting it ready to be wall hung I am stopping at this point.

My approach was basically that I didnt want any cohesive timeline in what is happening on the surface, I also tried to avoid showing spacial relationships between objects, I didnt want it to look flat but I didnt want certain things to have depth, because this feeling that I had was formless. I hope to explore this sort of idea for paintings frther, lets hope I get some time to paint.