Atman translates from Sanskrit as the inner self, or soul. It is understood as the primary, fundamental essence of an Individual—a concept shared throughout and across human histories. In these works the Soul is visualized as a golden point—or bindu—which is expressed in its transient emergence upon the blackness of the Void. Atman speaks to the endless transmigration of the Self; the migration of the soul from matter, or conversely, to matter. The undulating forms circumscribing its aperture of release are derived from the saggital sutures of the human cranium, the site of the crown chakra, through which the soul is ultimately released. The form also references the opening of the eye, through which all light—and knowledge—passes.

Atman is beyond the phenomenal world of matter, and its ultimate goal is liberation, or moksha, the path to which lies through self-knowledge. In Indian philosophy, this self-realization is conceived of as a union between one's true self and the Ultimate Reality that is: completely identical, completely different, or simultaneously non-different and different.