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On February 15, LACMA will screen artist Martha Fiennes’s new moving-image artwork, followed by a conversation with Fiennes and actor Julian Sands. We chatted with Martha last week to learn more about her inspirations for this work.

What was your inspiration for Yugen?
My inspiration in general is everything that is not material. So the mind, the interdimensional frequencies of other unmanifested realities. We all know that we have five senses, but there’s a whole lot happening that we don’t see. And there’s a lot that has created the circumstance of our lives, and it’s connected with consciousness and how the mind works, so there’s a much vaster world out there that is not the one you see with your eyes. It’s such a vast subject matter and it covers esoteric ideas, and spiritual ideas, and metaphysics, and quantum physics, and that’s what really, deeply interests me.

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