THE WHOLE ENTIRE UNIVERSE is a multi-work project, first displayed as isometric drawings at Plan B’s Lugano event in 2025, then subsequently at The Bitcoin Conference Amsterdam as digital works and most recently at The Bitcoin Conference 26 as a large and highly detailed oil painting (above). Future works include a full 21 million bead sculpture, a monumental public sculpture currently in planning stages in Roatán (see below), and as many different iterations as possibility and technological advancements allow.
THE CONCEPT
Anik wanted to create an artwork allowing the viewer to actually see what 21 million looked like, and in so doing discovered a startling mathematical symmetry hidden within the number. He made a short animation to illustrate, which even garnered the attention of Adam Back:
click here for a transcript of the video if you would like to read the details
Here is a short video explaining the painting itself:
A day-by-day animation of the painting process, set to Bach’s ‘Crab Canon’
MONUMENTAL PUBLIC SCULPTURE IN ROATÁN
Engineer’s projection of the sculpture by Tom Taber
Anik is currently in the planning phases of a very large public sculpture version of The Whole Entire Universe in Prospera, Roatán. In conjunction with Dusan Matuska, José Jaguar and the Prospera community, he is in the early stages of constructing an 8m (24′) high and wide monument made of exactly 21 million on-site recycled glass beads suspended from a heavy duty concrete structure. This epic undertaking will be an effort of the global Bitcoin community as a whole as well as local participation, and will likely take a number of years before its full completion. Visitors will be able to make contributions, both financially and physically, stringing and adding their own sets of beads and thereby becoming an eternal part of the sculpture’s creation and lore. We are exceedingly excited to seeing this become a reality!
For more information follow Anik on his x account (@anikmalcolm) or email him directly at anik369@mailfence.com.