I have spent my life searching for connection. Between people, between cultures, between the seen and the unseen. Multiverse is the most honest expression of that search I have ever put on a canvas.
This body of work was born from my love of quantum mechanics, string theory, and the idea that our universe — this singular, familiar world we call home — may be just one of infinite, parallel realities existing alongside our own. The scientists who first
proposed these theories felt, to me, like poets. Seekers. People who looked at the known world and refused to believe it was the whole story. I understand that impulse completely.
The paintings in Multiverse are oil on canvas and acrylic on acrylic, but what makes them truly alive to me is what lives inside them — recycled plastic water bottles, embedded in the paint itself. I chose to work with plastic because I couldn’t stop thinking about where it all goes. We discard it without a second thought, as though it simply disappears. It doesn’t. It ends up in our oceans, in our ecosystems, in the bodies of the creatures we share this planet with. In my paintings, I wanted to give it new life — to let it become the water it once held. In the cycle of birth and rebirth, nothing is wasted. It only transforms.
When I think about the multiverse — not just as a scientific theory, but as a way of understanding our world right now — I see it everywhere. We live alongside one another in entirely different realities. Different truths. Different universes of experience, of grief, of privilege, of possibility. We grew up learning that our world is called a “Universe.” One verse. One song. But what I see around me is a multiverse — countless voices, countless realities, some serene, some desperate, all existing at once.
I ask myself: how do we hold all of that? How do we stay awake to the pain of other universes while living inside our own?
For me, the answer has always been art. And poetry. And the willingness to keep looking.
Multiverse is my attempt to make sense of the infinite — and to find, within it, the thread that connects us all.
