is a body of 19 photographs and a single white image (though personally I do not consider them to be “photographs”, rather it is the visual medium I have chosen to describe my emotional state) that portrays the ascent of a soul through stages of realization.
These 19 photographs are from a collection of thousands that I have collected over a period of 4 years, and I have chosen them not because of their visual strength but because of how well they reflect my emotional state when I perceive, even if for a moment, the twenty significant stages of consciousness development.
Hence, Leaving Behind my House is personal as well as universal, and the photographs that constitute the body of the piece are not truly demonstrative as to what is being perceived by the soul at a certain stage in the evolutionary process, rather the photographs juxtaposed with the titles can be best described to be visual and mental cues which are composed of certain elements that invoke a certain emotional response from a viewer which closely reflects the emotional state as perceived by the soul on that particular stage.
However, the word close is the operative word in the sentence above and the displacement from the actual experience on that stage is always proportional to the distractions plaguing the person when he/she is pondering over that state, and hence, every person shall experience a variant of the actual experience, though the actual experience is absolute.