I Will Never Walk Twice in the Same Crowd explores the fleeting nature of human connection, the passage of time, and the relationship between the individual and the collective. Figures emerge, overlap, and dissolve into one another, strangers, familiar bodies, memories, or traces of people passing through a shared space.

The title draws from Heraclitus’ idea that we can never step into the same river twice. A river appears constant, yet its water is continuously flowing; what touches us in one moment has already moved elsewhere in the next. We, too, have changed. Here, the crowd becomes the river, a temporary convergence of individuals arriving, crossing paths, lingering, and disappearing again.

The paintings translate this movement through fluid gestures and partially dissolved forms. Bodies emerge from the paint before disappearing back into it, while paint itself behaves almost like water: carrying, accumulating, obscuring, and erasing.

At the center of the series are fortuitous encounters. We constantly cross paths with people whose presence may last only seconds. Most remain anonymous; others unexpectedly alter the course of our lives. Like a river, a crowd is never still. People gather, paths intersect, time passes, and everything moves again. We will never walk twice in the same crowd because neither the crowd, nor time, nor ourselves will ever be exactly the same again.