ENTROPY

Entropy is a time-based work composed of hundreds of cellphone screenshots captured at moments when the numbers displayed on the clock formed repeating, mirrored, or otherwise significant numerical sequences associated with numerology and ideas of synchronicity.

Removed from the dates on which they were originally captured, the screenshots are reordered according to time, progressing from 00:00 to 23:59. At that point, the sequence reverses: time begins to count backward and the images themselves are flipped, causing the numbers to be read in reverse.

Presented vertically on a television monitor to mimic the proportions and orientation of a cellphone screen, Entropy transforms a collection of fleeting, personally significant moments into an ordered cycle of progression and reversal. The work considers our impulse to find meaning and pattern within time, even as time itself continues to move beyond our attempts to record it.

Entropy was exhibited in Forgetting the Future: Entropy in the Reflective Age, curated by Lisa Desmidt at the Torrance Art Museum, 2015

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