Entry Into the Indigenous Abode
Khang Bao Nguyen’s artwork investigates metaphysical, ontological, epistemological and soteriological themes, such as the nature of being, becoming, dualistic subject-object cognition, as well as unbounded (ka dag chen po, ཀ་དག་ཆེན་པོ ), trans-conceptual (nirvikalpa, निर्विकल्प ) and nondual (advaita, अद्वैत ) awareness.
His work explores various ways to render the nature of dualistic perception as well as how to gain access to the inherent field of nondual awareness. To be more specific, Nguyen inquires how the perceiver, upon closely contemplating the symbolic language in his work, can be incited to gain insights into the nature of conscious perception as well as the underlying field from which it emerges. By attending in this manner, he believes there is a possibility for the mind to be spontaneously released from the recognizable contents of consciousness such that an unoccupied space for the direct recognition of one's fundamental nature becomes possible. This is central to his investigation of visual media's capacity to evoke an unmediated awareness that is free from the mind's thought-constructs.
His work explores various ways to render the nature of dualistic perception as well as how to gain access to the inherent field of nondual awareness. To be more specific, Nguyen inquires how the perceiver, upon closely contemplating the symbolic language in his work, can be incited to gain insights into the nature of conscious perception as well as the underlying field from which it emerges. By attending in this manner, he believes there is a possibility for the mind to be spontaneously released from the recognizable contents of consciousness such that an unoccupied space for the direct recognition of one's fundamental nature becomes possible. This is central to his investigation of visual media's capacity to evoke an unmediated awareness that is free from the mind's thought-constructs.
