Olive wood (Olea europaea) with stainless steel and epoxy inlays.
17 lbs. 29” x 19” x 3”
Organized Disorder I is structured around a fundamental scientific tension: how can humans emerge and evolve in a universe governed by physical laws requiring disorder (entropy) to increase? With its irregular perimeter and internally disordered grain, olive wood represents entropy in one of its most familiar material expressions — a visible archive of disorder accumulating within matter. Left alone, systems trend toward such diffusion and irregularity.
Embedded at the center is a rectangular metallic element representing order. Order here is local and temporary, purchased at the cost of greater disorder elsewhere. The aluminum form thus represents intelligent life — not as a negation of entropy, but as a structure that temporarily resists it through energy flow, information, and constraint.
Olive wood (Olea europaea) with stainless steel and epoxy inlays.
17 lbs. 29” x 19” x 3”
Organized Disorder I is structured around a fundamental scientific tension: how can humans emerge and evolve in a universe governed by physical laws requiring disorder (entropy) to increase? With its irregular perimeter and internally disordered grain, olive wood represents entropy in one of its most familiar material expressions — a visible archive of disorder accumulating within matter. Left alone, systems trend toward such diffusion and irregularity.
Embedded at the center is a rectangular metallic element representing order. Order here is local and temporary, purchased at the cost of greater disorder elsewhere. The aluminum form thus represents intelligent life — not as a negation of entropy, but as a structure that temporarily resists it through energy flow, information, and constraint.
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