Robert Smithson once responded at length on the relationships between physicality, entropy and disintegration of sculptures:
The main objective is to make something massive and physical enough so that it can interact with those things and go through all kinds of modifications. If the work has sufficient physicality, any kind of natural change would tend to enhance the work. Geology has its own kind of entropy that has to do with sediment mixtures…
By infusing the family structure with that of geological landforms, I hope to create a bond between these two forms. As Smithson points out, Geology is distinct when viewed in relation to entropy. Though components of the massive structure decays, decomposes, breaks down, the entirety of the structure remains intact, its innards modulating with time and contact. The characteristics inherent within the geological form are properties that I hope to impose onto the family structure - one that can be altered but never displaced
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If you are interested in this particular aspect, I would recommend for you to research more about Entropy.
Thank you Prof. but i guess i am recently discovering all these ideas from these artists and things are slowly filing into my brain.
After some more research, looking at both Matta Clark and Smithson, themes begin to surface. These few lines have really resonated with me...
The tension between structure and disintegration, the tension between form and decomposition, the tension between totality and fragments, the tension between the center and the edge.
What i am trying to say is that entropy becomes a mere characteristic of the project but by no means its overall concept. It is from this entropy that these elements become possible; forming the basis of the resulting photographic works.
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