For decades, Bonita Helmer’s work has existed in the space between art and science. Her fascination with the ‘how’ led her to study theoretical physics at UCLA. Additional studies of quantum physics as well as Buddhism and the Kabbalah followed and have informed her work ever since. Both physics and spirituality seek to explain that which we don’t understand - to give order to the chaos, to give humans some sort of tether in the great unknown that is time and space and existence.

In this series, aptly titled Theory of Everything, Helmer is continuing to evolve her use of abstraction to make order of the universe we live in. The Theory of Everything is a hypothetical framework in physics that explains and unites all aspects of the universe. Scientists intellectually consider such a possibility and Helmer intuitively explores that unknown space between the understood and the possible.