Simon Villaeys’s current work, entitled Verum Ipsum Factum, or “you only know what you have made yourself”, consists in inventing new worlds, universes and possibilities for Humanity.

As a tribute to the creativity of the Creator, Simon intends to recreate views of the cosmos using the pictorial qualities of watercolour, gouache, and dry pastel. It is worth noting that by putting himself in God’s shoes, he still uses the laws of physics of this universe to invent new ones. Simon thinks the truth is you can create your own reality from scratch if you have the right tools to do so.

Following Jean-Pierre Petit’s “Janus model”, he has created some of his drawings in negative only to be scanned and inverted into an original positive print. Jean-Pierre Petit, former director of the CNES, was sacked because he disclosed having made his best discoveries – especially in magnetohydrodynamics, to reach underwater supersonic speeds – under the influence of extraterrestrials. His “Janus model”, named after the two-faced god, intuits the existence of a twin universe linked to ours in which time goes backwards. Simon extrapolates this feature to colour theory, where colours would be negative in some other universes