Frida,
I feel extremely pleasant knowing you. First let me apologise for my late response as I was away and came back yesterday.

People generally claim using no medium to feel one with God or the universe, they have different names for it. For me there is no difference between material and spiritual happiness. Noticing my obsession in my childhood, my mother used to call me mad like Rumi. Even Jalaluddin needed a medium. He used his love for Shamshuddin as a tool which generated the idea of connecting with God. It was an obsession, just an idea, I use my camera, its just a tool I am not obsessed with the tool but what it can generate through my mind. It is material. I try to connect myself with nature, through my portraits, landscapes. I am afraid to disappoint you by saying that I have no faith as our existence has no meaning. We all make an attempt to know the unknown
we have given different names to it. fight over it. Knowing the unknown has caused bloodshed, each one claiming what he knows is right. I have given it up. I don't want to know, What I see is nature, what I feel is nature, let me be one with it through a medium of love, of a material. Love is the platform on which I stand on Frida.