In The Eventual Unraveling of Everything we explored the myriad and complex intricacies of entropy as well as the interconnectedness of the systems that make up our universe. These are emergent systems built from colliding molecules repeatedly self-structuring and self-replicating through infinite interactions. These interactions produce life forms and the very life-giving circumstances that enfold and evolve us. As the universe constructs and evolves increasingly complex systems, it simultaneously devolves, deconstructs and expands through thermodynamic principles. This process of growth and decay ebbs and flows between ordered equilibrium and chaotic disorder, increasingly maximizing potential for more life and more death.
To take a cosmological look back on the evolution of the universe and the undulations between order and disorder, the installtion consisted of a large, fabric sculpture with projection-mapped imagery. The sculpture was made with woven fibers to create a material plane, or ‘universe’. The fibers were then unraveled by hand, distressed and decayed, wearing away the fabric and simultaneously increasing its volume and dimension. The approach of both building and destroying was to speak to the ever-increasing potential of decay and the possibility of a more dynamic storytelling. The projected, procedural animations began as simple molecules that slowly self-organize and multiply. As the imagery progresses, so does the complexity, from sub-atomic to cosmic. In this way we held a small lens up to the interrelation of entropy and evolution.
In Collaboration with artists Nate Mohler, Will Wharton and Kaitlin Bryson