Our minds aim to order reality to a sensible whole through our senses and cognitions. The background of the portraits suggest a storm or a fire. An interpretation of some hell dwelling spirits comes forth. A Buddhist text the Fire Sermon states that our senses and cognitions are actually on fire and the answer to extinguishing this fire is to estrange oneself from our experience. This is, to see experience as impermanent and acknowledging how this is burning with the fires of anger, greed and delusion.

The portraits are an ongoing investigation of the work of several Western philosophers whose thought can be interpreted through Buddhist philosophies. Is an answer to the burning question of life and death a body of intricate metaphysical thought, or is it just an obstacle? How to think and not be trapped by thought – how to not think without being inattentive or careless?