In P.D Ouspensky's book The Fourth Way published posthumously by his students in 1957, he mentions that the true evolution of a human is through knowledge. Gilbert Scott-Heron said the following in one of his interviews: “The first thing you do, you try to get your house together, then next door then the block. You don't try to go out and change the world tomorrow without taking the steps in between.” I took Gilbert Scott-Heron's statement metaphorically and I began the study of oneself. In Ouspensky's (The Fourth Way) book he mentions that if we begin to study ourselves we first of all come up against one word which we use more than any other and that is the word 'I'.

‘We say 'I am doing', 'I am sitting', 'I feel', 'I like', 'I dislike' and so on. This is our chief illusion, for the principal mistake we make about ourselves is that we consider ourselves one; we always speak about ourselves as 'I' and we suppose that we refer to the same thing all the time when in reality we are divided into hundreds and hundreds of different 'I's. At one moment when I say 'I', one part of me is speaking, and at another moment when I say 'I', it is quite another 'I' speaking.

We do not know that we have not one 'I', but many different 'I's connected with our feelings and desires, and have no controlling 'I'. These 'I's change all the time; one suppresses another, one replaces another, and all this struggle makes up our inner life. 'I's which we see in ourselves are divided into several groups. Some of these groups are legitimate, they belong to right divisions of man, and some of them are quite artificial and are created by insufficient knowledge and by certain imaginary ideas that man has about himself’ - Ouspensky.

I have started observing myself, reflecting and examining my current state of being. I'm correcting certain things about myself, all the ideas or 'I's that I have grown to identify myself with from childhood until now, so I can tap into my own true voice and essence. My work leans towards psychology, self-awareness and a questioning or observing of reality and the world around me.