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An Entanglement of Pattern Seekers: Sculptures across Spacetime:

Once we were many.

I will use science-led evidence to explore how love and compassion have shaped our minds and bodies, fundamentally defining our humanity over hundreds of thousands of years. By denying our innate morality and ignoring the evidence of our lived experiences, we have inadvertently perpetuated patterns of harm across generations.

Thousands of years of civilisation shaped by hierarchical systems of power, born from cycles of intergenerational trauma, have upheld narrow narratives of dominance and heroism while diminishing the roles of women and children. These patterns, rooted in inherited pain, and survival mechanisms have fostered a skewed, self-serving worldview - one that struggles to grasp the gravity of both the challenges and opportunities before us.

This historical distortion has hidden our 70,000-year-old success story of connection, creativity, and resilience, overshadowed by dogma and division.

Over millions of years, our hominid ancestors glimpsed many possible futures in the flickering firelight, night after night developing their ability to see patterns. This process revealed a counterfactual, layered reality shaped by conscious choice. By comprehending choice, they inadvertently discovered free will. They succeeded by choosing to be guided by conscious conscience powered by morality. Evidence of their choices lies in the fossilised bones and footprints of our ancestors - and within all of us, embedded in the unique neurology of Homo sapiens

Once, the world had many goddesses. These goddesses, alongside gods, embodied the forces of nature, reminding us that we are part of it, not apart from it - and that our success lies in our capacity for love and compassion. By remembering what has been forgotten, we can entangle our histories, reaching into the past to reshape the future. This act reveals that we are one with each other, that we have faced immense challenges before, and that what carried us through was standing together and having each other’s back

About the

Project

'Entanglement of Goddesses: sculptures across spacetime' combines my love of physics with a deep curiosity about history, astronomy, archaeology, anthropology, neurology, palaeontology, psychology, philosophy, and technology - bringing these together to explore humanity’s shared journey through time and space.

Dogma perpetuates a single narrative: men as dominant figures, women as supporters, and children as property. This cycle, rooted in inherited trauma, distorts our understanding of strength and disconnects us from each other, our children, and our planet. Women have always been vital to human progress - building societies, pioneering science, creating art, and fostering connection - yet their invaluable contributions have often been erased from history.

When these contributions are forgotten, a void forms, allowing false narratives to take root and further disconnecting us from our shared histories, each other, and the natural world we are entrusted to protect for future generations. Creativity wanes, awe diminishes, and society becomes trapped in cycles of repetition. Yet, the legacies of women pioneers endure, intricately woven into the fabric of our reality. Like goddess myths across cultures—embodying creation, resilience, and transformation—their stories hold enduring power to inspire, reconnect, and reshape our world.

The project envisions 1,001 sculptures worldwide, each pairing a forgotten woman pioneer with a living female scientific innovator, connecting the erased contributions of the past to the groundbreaking work of the present. By reclaiming these stories, the project restores rightful legacies and creates a dynamic storytelling system that bridges past and present, mythology and science, and cultures and generations. Echoing the 1,001 Nights of Scheherazade, these sculptures use storytelling as a tool for survival, transformation, and connection.

The project celebrates the creative intersection of art and science. Both disciplines seek patterns to uncover connections and bring coherence to chaos, offering profound insights into our shared reality. Science reveals the systems shaping our world, while art allows us to visualise and emotionally process these truths. Just as quantum entanglement forms matter, the entanglement of forgotten stories and present creativity shapes cultural reality, reminding us that our future depends on the connections we honour and the realities we dare to imagine.

Forgotten Histories Future Possibilities: The sculptures serve as physical anchors for the Quantum Goddesses Project, embodying the stories of forgotten pioneers and their connections to contemporary scientists. Live performances of dance and drama will bring these narratives to life, weaving movement and emotion into the historical and scientific themes represented by each sculpture. Digital storytelling and archives will expand these stories’ reach, offering multimedia experiences that include videos, interviews, and interactive content to engage a global audience.

Why Goddess?

Popular culture often diminishes goddesses to mere symbols of physical beauty, overshadowing their profound significance as embodiments of universal human qualities—creation, wisdom, transformation, and justice. Figures like Ma’at, Kali, Mami Wata, Sekhmet, and Inanna, among others, are not defined by appearance but by the power of their stories—tales that challenge norms, heal wounds, and inspire progress. The Quantum Goddesses Project reclaims and reimagines these archetypes, offering a richer narrative that honours the complexity and strength of what it means to strive for humanity’s highest aspirations.

Goddesses also symbolise adaptability and the power to evolve while preserving their essence. Similarly, the women pioneers celebrated in this project reshaped the world with groundbreaking contributions, even as their legacies were obscured or ignored. By connecting these archetypes with the real-life achievements of forgotten pioneers and the work of living innovators, the Quantum Goddesses Project reclaims these stories and positions them as enduring symbols of creativity, courage, and transformation.

This project embraces the transformative potential of engaging with shared histories and inherited trauma. By addressing erased stories and unspoken pain, it creates a space for connection and healing. It offers a lens to explore intergenerational trauma, the interplay of science and culture, and the bonds that unite us all. Through these narratives, individuals see themselves reflected, recognising the shared threads of struggle, creativity, and resilience that define us all.

The Evolutionary Dance of Humanity

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PATTERN 1

WE HAD EACH OTHER AND EACH OTHER’S BACK.

Laotoli Footprints

PATTERN 2

APE THAT LEARNED TO LOVE HER BABY AND HER FELLOW APES.

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PATTERN 3

IS THAT NO WHERE DOES ONE COME ACROSS HUMAN STICK FIGURES ATTACKING OTHER STICK FIGURES OR A BIGGER HUMAN STICK FGURE LORDING IT OVER OTHER SUITABLY SMALLER HUMAN STICK FIGURES.

Toddler dancing

PATTERN 4

THE MORE THEY WERE ABLE TO SYNCHRONISE THEIR MOVEMENTS WITH THE MUSIC THE MORE THEY SMILED.

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PATTERN 5

WE MANIFEST TO EACH OTHER AND ARE MADE REAL WHEN WE ARE WITNESSED.

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PATTERN 6

OUR 70,000-YEAR HOMO SAPIENS SUCCESS STORY STARTS WITH A NEWBORN MIND SHAPED BY LOVE AND POWERED BY COMPASSION

WE ARE QUANTUM GODDESSES

On sunny afternoons in the patterns of clouds floating above our heads

We see the gathering of spaceships and the soaring of creatures real and fantastical.

We imagine the many possibilities in the many patterns we see in nature around us.

We disassemble the mountains from mountain ranges - mountain ranges from continents - continents from the surface of the Earth. Earth from the sun - stars from galaxies and the disassembly continues as far as we can see.

 

We see this.

We are the organisers of all these systems of information.

We did this.
We are a system of information observing other systems of information.

Without our eyes, ears, and brains evolved to organize these systems of information there is no reality.

 

Natures imagination has always surpassed ours.

 

Life writes itself a love story.

From a singularly clinical single cell division that uncharitably allowed a mutation or two every few billion copies

To the joyful coming together of two to make a new third wonderfully chaotic life form

That immediately claims itself to be a unique never before and never again system of information.

We fell in love with our baby.

How could we not.

 

That’s the one that wants to love, wants to party, wants to travel.

And is making plans to explore the universe.

Wants to know what's over the galactic horizon.

Wants to know if there are others out there similarly seeking to go on quests.

 

We are the dancing singing loving exploring ape from Africa.

We are the coming together of tiny bits of planet Earth to enquire into its own existence.

We are planet earth.

Wanting to know.

Wanting to explore the universe.

Wanting to see if matter elsewhere has evolved intelligence and wants to compare notes.

 

We are made of Earth.

We are made for Earth.

We are Earth.

We are Earth with a conscience, fuelling immeasurable curiosity.

We are a part of Earth’s plan to become an explorer.

We left Africa to embark on the greatest adventure involving exploration of the universe

And ultimately, the discovery of ourselves.

 

For thousands of years, there were goddesses everywhere and in everything we did.

To remind us that we succeed when we know love and compassion.

Once we were many.

 

We have forgotten those stories.

They were very important.

We are here to make you remember.

We are the ones that did not forget.

 

Our dance plucks ever so slightly the strings of history

Vibrates.

Present with past entangles.

Forever changes the future.

An error is corrected.

 

We are the Forgotten Ones.

We are the Quantum Goddesses.

We are the Error Correcting Algorithms.

We are here to make you remember.

"Art to me as an artist is like science to a scientist. It is a way of making observations about the world. It is a process of slicing the world apart and then reconstructing it — making connections new and some old but always telling a new story. Always hoping for a new insight — always a new way of looking at the same thing." -Sheefali

ABOUT ME

‘I have to understand the world, you see.’ Richard P. Feynman

I am Sheefali Asija, an artist, storyteller, and the visionary behind the Quantum Goddesses Project. This project is deeply rooted in my own journey—a journey shaped by personal trauma, fragmented memories, and a profound love for science, and storytelling. Growing up as the child of Partition survivors, I carry a legacy of resilience and loss, a tapestry threaded with immense pain, unwavering hope, and the enduring strength of love.

Through this project, I extend this journey outward, inviting others to see their life story as part of a vast, interconnected web of human experience spanning space time. The past becomes undiscovered territory, full of forgotten stories and hidden truths, where intergenerational trauma lingers as echoes of inherited pain. These fragments—memories and narratives handed down through generations—bear the weight of stories that were erased, misunderstood, or intentionally silenced. They surface in the present as emotional scars, behavioral patterns, or a shared sense of disconnection, profoundly shaping how we view ourselves and the world around us.

By accepting these fragments - be they stories of resilience, struggle, fear or humiliation - we begin to heal the wounds they represent, transforming inherited pain into a legacy of understanding, connection, and renewal. The past, once unexplored, becomes a wellspring of insight, offering not only lessons but also the opportunity to reimagine the future with clarity and compassion.

In my practice I have been propelled along by Richard P Feynman, a theoretical physicist's question – ‘Is no one inspired by our present picture of the Universe? This value of science remains unsung by singers, you are reduced to hearing not a song or poem, but an evening lecture about it. This is not yet a scientific age. What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?’. Feynman’s words resonate deeply with me, highlighting how science, though profoundly poetic, is often constrained to sterile explanations rather than celebrated as the awe-inspiring narrative it truly is.

David Grinspoon, an astrobiologist whose life and work are a source of inspiration, makes the case for humanity to become compassionate planetary engineers, conscious shapers of our environment, and caretakers of Earth’s biosphere. Carlo Rovelli, a theoretical physicist described as a poet of physics, provides a moral and ethical framework for humanity’s collective journey to the stars.

These thinkers challenge me to explore how scientific understanding, when paired with creative expression, can spark imagination and inspire compassion. They remind me that art has the power to convey the emotional truth of science, and that together, they can help us imagine and shape a more connected, empathetic, and sustainable future.

 

 

My art is both a meditation and a journey—a means of processing and navigating the complexities of my life, much like the intricate creation of mandalas in Eastern traditions. Each piece becomes an exploration of resilience, hope, and creativity, deeply rooted in the tapestry of my personal history.

I am an Indian-born British artist whose practice merges culture, storytelling, and the universal themes that bind us. My journey in art has been shaped by a rigorous academic and creative foundation. I earned an MA in Fine Arts with distinction from Chelsea College of Arts, London, in December 2019. From 2011 to 2014, I had the privilege of studying under Sam Adoquei, a Ghanaian American artist, teacher, and mentor, at his Fine Arts Union Square Atelier. Sam’s belief that “you can change the world one brushstroke at a time” continues to inspire my practice. My work has been exhibited in Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Vienna, Ferrara, and Miami, resonating across diverse audiences and cultures.

I am Humanism Ambassador for ideaXme, a global platform dedicated to celebrating the power of ideas to move humanity forward. This role aligns with my commitment to using art as a medium for connection, healing, and transformation. Through my practice, I aim to illuminate the threads that unite us, encouraging dialogue and fostering empathy, and to leave a legacy of stories that inspire hope and imagination for generations to come.

My

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"Here it is standing: Atoms with consciousness; matter with curiosity. Stands at the sea, wonders at wondering. I, a universe of atoms, An atom in the universe." Richard Feynman

This profound observation reflects the core of my belief: for humanity to thrive, it is crucial to understand what we know, how we know it, and the journey that brought us here. This understanding is not only a celebration of our curiosity but also a compass to navigate the immense challenges we face as a species.

Through my work, I aim to highlight the beauty and importance of an evidence-based worldview. With projects like Sartorial Van—an NFT collaboration with Saatchi Art, Virtuteus Praemium—a campus-wide installation celebrating the rewards of virtue, and the Pattern Seeker and Ignition Sequence series of oil paintings, I explore the patterns and systems that underpin reality. These works reflect humanity’s relentless drive to question, discover, and make sense of the world. Each piece is a meditation on our shared human journey, emphasizing the interconnectedness of art, science, and storytelling in shaping our understanding of existence. My creative practice is deeply influenced by my belief in the transformative power of knowledge and the essential role of curiosity in driving progress and fostering hope.

In my stop-motion video art, Hypersurface of the Present – The Journey of a Photon,” I imagined traveling alongside a photon born in the Sun four billion years ago. This tiny particle of light has traversed unfathomable distances, now passing through a collision of galaxies four billion light years away. Its journey embodies the awe and wonder that fuels my work—an invitation to explore, reflect, and connect with the vastness of existence and the patterns it holds.

I have drawn upon facts and evidence, supported by extensive research and diverse sources, to weave the patterns and narratives of this project—though the inferences and connections are uniquely my own.

Archaeological, anthropological, neurological, and psychological breakthroughs reveal a world in our deep past that thrived on rich, interconnected relationships and a profound sense of harmony. This suggests that our ancestors were attuned to their humanity and the natural world. To create a legacy of meaning and possibility for future generations, I believe we must not only delve deeper into our shared past but also reflect within ourselves. It is in understanding these patterns - both ancient and internal - that we can reimagine our collective story and leave behind a tapestry of connection, creativity, and care for those who come after us.

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“I am seeking female scientists from around the world who approach their work with curiosity, altruism, and a deep love for discovery.”

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"Art to me as an artist is like science to a scientist. It is a way of making observations about the world. It is a process of slicing the world apart and then reconstructing it — making connections new and some old but always telling a new story. Always hoping for a new insight — always a new way of looking at the same thing." -Sheefali

"Art is love made public." Sense8, Lana Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski