Entropy III (thru a self, narrowly)
Painting by Alexandru Crisan (Romania)

Entropy is an eschatological foxhole (where, allegedly, no atheists are to be found…). Mapping out its versatility (and its axal, arid atoms) can trick an artist into either psychosomatic solipsism or holistic amok. This is a diptych about homeostasis and dysthymia (aka, persistent depressive disorder).

Appendix

I've started this painting as a reaction to Robert Smithson's “Enantiomorphic Chambers”. As an architect, my interest in Smithson's work pinpointed the dialectic nature of his “Nonsites”, and his take on biomorphism – a subject I've studied extensively via Frank Lloyd Wright. My problem, nevertheless, was that of equilibrium representation – a subject I've started to consider crucial only in my mid 30s: it was the logic of the dynamic essence of balance that, ultimately, is to be found at the core of any sense of identification/identity...

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painting on paper 107 x 72.5cm / diptych
© Alexandru Crisan 2021.R2024
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project: [Entropy] > https://alexandru-crisan.com/projects/entropy/
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