Entropy - The beginning of things

oil on canvas, diptych, 90 x 70 x 2cm, 2024

Time cannot be a universal concept. Even if we agree on terms and measurements to communicate time, believing that its meaning, value and duration apply equally to the broader universe, would be an illusion. The fact is that every human being and every moving object has its own time. "We are the continuous calculation of time" says the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. The past and future are distinguished through friction and heat. When we move, we release heat and therefore manifest life. The flow of life is constantly disrupted, thus following the order of things defined by entropy. Entropy is energy that measures the degree of disorder prevailing in the world, and it never decreases. A glass that falls and breaks into a million pieces is an action caused by entropy's tendency to increase constantly. Order is brought into the world through chaos while each person moves through it in their own personal and intimate time.