Drawings, Inks, and Cutouts

Entropy is a concept often used to represent the degree of disorder or randomness in a given system. This concept is used in biological and mathematical equations to account for chaos. In other words, humans have attempted to measure and account for chaos in precise equations and theories for understanding the universe and how it works. I want to push this idea by saying that entropy embraces the idea that through art, I take chaotic and random elements of the natural world and find patterns through the creation of art.

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When I paint in Plein air or implement natural elements and concepts, I am exposing myself to the chaos and randomness of the natural world both physically and mentally. When I paint or create artwork, I actively seek out the pattern and create a composition based upon the random and disorderly system of the natural world. In it, I find myself repeatedly coming back to places and things where there is always a plethora of growth and development and interconnected layers/webs. Especially in the stages, I like to call the pupae stage. This stage is where something may seem still and strange, but within there are complex growth stages occurring. The between stages.

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Each tree holds an entirely unseen web of connections in the earth. Bacteria, fungi, insects and more interact with the roots in thousands of interconnected co-dependent or independent relations. These relations are interconnected and tangled webs that inevitably, when acted upon, act upon other parts of that same web. The world is inevitably and irrevocably confounding, but if I search for the patterns through meditation and metacognition, exploration and curiosity, I can take these confounding elements and understand them through an amalgamation of artwork. My art acts like the word entropy itself works to describe randomness.

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This provides a basis for understanding growth and development, the metamorphosis of the natural and human world.