The digital environment increasingly absorbs the informational and logical layers of human life. Memory, orientation, communication, and even intuition are delegated to systems designed for speed, clarity, and optimization. This process appears largely irreversible; resisting it feels beside the point. Yet as rational structures become more comprehensive, something else becomes visible by contrast: states of being that remain inaccessible to computation.
Mystical states belong to this uncaptured zone. They do not operate through stable information, symbolic continuity, or logical progression. They are discontinuous, unstable, and fundamentally non-translatable. Precisely because the digital realm cannot contain them, they begin to stand out with greater intensity. This applies to teachings and practices oriented toward unstructured states of consciousness and experiences beyond conditioning, into regions where meaning dissolves and orientation fails.
As a graphic designer, I have worked within digital systems for decades. I understand their power and elegance, and I use contemporary tools, including AI, in my daily work. However, as an artist, I encounter a growing incompatibility between these tools and my creative practice. Design methodologies, compositional logic, color theory, and algorithmic processes belong to a world of control, while many forms of human experience remain undescribed, unstructured, and resistant to such control.
Pop culture, in my view, further amplifies this distance. Complex internal states and subtle modes of perception are flattened into icons, archetypes, and cartoonish abstractions. Mystical experience becomes aesthetic. Inner rupture becomes style. What is lived as destabilization is rendered as consumable image. The result is not democratization, but dilution.
In this sense, mystical states do not disappear in the digital age. They become more isolated, and therefore more charged. They persist not as content, but as absence. Not as representation, but as disturbance. They remain as that which cannot be stored, optimized, or shared.
The boundaries between the digitized and the non-digitized, the structured and the unstructured, remain fluid and unstable. Having observed how modern technologies shape our lives, I find myself drawn to what falls outside the digital environment. In my current practice, I focus on phenomena as they arise within mystical, unstructured experience and on their articulation through visual form.