Conversation With The Self
Year of Creation:
2021
Media:
Digital Collage + Album (16 Tracks)
Dimensions:
Variable
Interaction Type:
Not Interactive
Duration:
34:13
Description:
Conversation With The Self is a 16-track experimental rap and sound-art album paired with a digital collage that stages an inner dialogue as a spiritual, political, and psychological journey. The music weaves together rap, spoken word, sampled voices (including Alan Watts), instrumental interludes, and collage-like beats to create a ritual of self-examination. Across three arcs—cosmic detachment to contamination, armor to vulnerability, crucible to aftermath—the project traces oscillations of defiance, confession, alienation, transcendence, and honesty. The digital collage album cover embodies this tension: the artist’s own face appears beneath a barred cap, behind which an Eastern divinity peeks through; above hovers a crucifixion figure with golden halo, set against sacred geometry. Together, image and sound articulate the self as layered, porous, and contested—simultaneously cosmic, wounded, divine, and caged.
Core Question:
What truths emerge when the self turns inward and refuses to look away?
Loop Analysis
Structure:
Inward Dialogue Loop
Definition:
A recursive system where the self questions, accuses, consoles, and contradicts itself, looping through voices and archetypes.
Leverage Point:
Recognition that survival lies not in resolution but in honesty—enduring contradiction without collapse.
Inputs / Outputs:
Lyrical confession + sampled voices + soundscapes → listener immersion → reflection on universal oscillations (faith, shame, resilience) → reframing of self as layered and dynamic
Effect:
Catharsis, estrangement, recognition, spiritual ambivalence
Ethical Valence:
Vulnerable and searching—reveals the contradictions of being without imposing transcendence as closure
Design Note:
The pairing of sacred geometry, crucifixion, and hidden divinity visually maps the album’s arcs: cosmic order, inherited burden, hidden traditions, and the self caught in their collision.
