BEGINNING MY RESEARCH: SPRITUAL QUESTIONSM
- ekweozor nonso
- Jul 21
- 1 min read
Beginning My Research: Spiritual Questionism
My name is Nonso Ekweozor, a visual artist from Nigeria and the founder of Spiritual Questionism, an artistic movement that investigates spirituality through inquiry rather than certainty.
I believe painting can be more than a medium for representation or storytelling. It can become a method of inquiry—a way of exploring consciousness, existence, and the unseen through visual language. Rather than presenting fixed answers, my work invites sustained reflection and encourages viewers to engage with questions that remain open.
Image : 3 and 4 Of My Research Diagram
The central research question guiding my residency is:
How can painting function as a method of spiritual inquiry into consciousness, existence, and the unseen?
My practice combines symbolism, abstraction, and psychological displacement. Objects within my paintings are not merely things; they act as carriers of thought, emotion, memory, and spiritual tension. By disrupting ordinary relationships between objects and the human figure, I aim to create spaces where viewers can reflect on their own experiences and interpretations.
Throughout this residency, I will use diagrams, writing, discussion, and painting to develop the theoretical and visual framework of Spiritual Questionism. My Miro diagrams will document the evolution of these ideas, while this blog will serve as a record of my research process, discoveries, and reflections.
I look forward to sharing this journey with the residency community and learning through dialogue, experimentation, and collective exchange.
Really looking forward to seeing where you take this project, it really fascinates me. Exploring different forms of inquiry is quite important, and particularly in domains that our modernized world has taken on a tendency to denigrate and neglect, such as the spiritual.
I should mention that I your phrase "Objects within my paintings are not merely things" took me by surprise. I do not know that there is such a thing as 'mere things.' Indeed, objects are imbued with meaning, affect, experiences. The chair your mother sits on to read every morning, the old toy from your childhood you can't bring yourself to get rid of, a simple pen given to you by a friend. Even this blog post…