Entropy - The beginning of things

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

Time cannot be understood as a universal concept. Even if we agree on terms and measurements to communicate it, to assume that its meaning, value, and duration apply equally across the broader universe is an illusion. In reality, every human being and every moving object exists within its own time. “We are the constant computing of time,” says the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli.

When we move, we release heat and, in doing so, manifest life. The distinction between past and future emerges through this friction and heat. The flow of life is continuously disrupted, following the order of things defined by entropy. Entropy, the energy that measures the degree of disorder in the world, never decreases. A glass that falls and shatters into a million pieces is a manifestation of entropy’s constant tendency to increase. 

Order arises through chaos, while each person moves within their own personal and intimate experience of time.