Christopher Martin’s Surrender Your State of Consciousness (2025, Mixed Media Sculpture) carries his signature aesthetic of text punctured and fixed into permanence by a black arrow, but here the phrase engages more directly with ideas of ego, awareness, and transcendence.

The work features a white surface pierced by an arrow, bearing the words: “SURRENDER YOUR STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.” The statement reads both as a command and as a meditation, urging the viewer to release identification with thought, identity, or perception itself. It gestures toward the dissolution of boundaries, the invitation to move beyond the narrow frame of individual awareness into something more expansive and universal.

The arrow—sharp, immediate, and intrusive—becomes an embodied metaphor for surrender. It disrupts the surface, punctuating the phrase as an unavoidable truth. As in Martin’s wider body of work, the physical act of piercing turns language into a lived experience rather than a passive idea.

Typography is bold, black, and stripped of flourish, intensifying clarity and forcing focus on the raw weight of the words. The stark black-and-white palette keeps attention on meaning, ensuring nothing distracts from the confrontation of the phrase itself.

With Surrender Your State of Consciousness, Martin pushes his practice into explicitly spiritual terrain. It is less a suggestion than a demand, not simply read but absorbed. The work stands as a sculptural mantra: an invocation to let go of control, to yield the ego, and to step into a deeper state of being.

14in x 8in x 17in
Ink on Paper + Wood Arrow