stainless steel, oxidized carbon steel, and topographic maps
26” x 22” x 10”
2009
Entropy could be the measure of energy not present in a material or physical situation; likewise this piece could be a measure of space unknown or un-utilized, made known by what it is not. Entropy also eludes to the gradual erosion of all things back to earth. All things constructed will fail, fall, and decompose. In developed society’s progression, the “progress” of industrialization’s efficiency erodes creativity and the human sense or touch to earth and location. Convenience,consumerism, and mono-culture pacify and suffocate us.
Our perception to space is activated by what space is not. Life and material are ephemeral, Like clouds passing over topography by the whirl of wind in the earth’s breath. Material life begins from earth and returns to earth. However,our perception of earth hovers ethereal.
What we think defines us, is us, and lasts beyond the physical death cycle of life. The silence of mediation on time passing is more real than the object that moves through time toward decay. Our experience, perception, and sensation of the sun is more real than any solar cosmos which we do not understand or know.
Silence and Entropy stand in a quiet presence that evokes something past, or something to come. Form rises up from earth and perception hovers elusively in-between experience and contemplation. This piece implements a tacit language of materials, space, and movement or alignment around that space. Rusted steel and stainless steel are contrasted as paradigm in framing contemplation of location, entropy, stillness, and the omnipresent progression of time through land and experience.
