The Science
The image was created by scanography where a digital scanner is used to create the artwork. The process of scanography can represent cycles of energy and entropy. Scanography may cause differences of light and representation of chaos associated with entropy.
Process: Using 35mm film photography, flowers are a connection to nature’s cycles: in particular I shot flowers in winter as flowers that seemed dead and frozen. I wanted to show the elongation of energy as an extreme associated with the concept of infinity. As I control the photograph’s movement over the scanner, I perform the process of scanography. This is an experimental technique of visual art.
I have always questioned the confidence of nature, and the structure and performance of how nature owns cycles that repeat in the background of our everyday lives. I’m obsessed with cycles of life and death as well as the idea of infinite energy. I represent this concept using flowers that I photographed to represent that energy never dies.
I base most of my work on spirituality and philosophical theory. Since I already planned to work on a project based on death through nature’s cycles involving flowers, I hope to represent the matter of life and death through my work. “We Are the Flowers in Your Dustbin” relates to this project based on death that I want to conceptualise into a sequence of images. For instance, the idea of being abandoned through death could be translated to an ending of a cycle. I immediately make linkages of themes and connections to research based on entropy through life and death. Here are some potential themes and areas to explore, as a narrative.
Entropy refers to a measure of order and disorder. Combining entropy with death explores theories based on decay and maturing, and this relates to how our entropy increases from the second that we are born (Hershey, 2009).
We are born in a more organized fashion (low entropy) and then entropy increases through our maturity, resulting in death (maximum entropy).
Connections I have made include:
Death: cycles, ending, decay, abandoned, mature, cold
Life: attachment, memory, success, driven, process
Entropy: born to die, energy, length (measure of time and chaos)
The Artist
Katie Aird is an experimental visual artist, exploring philosophy and psychoanalysis through art.
Website: www.katieaird.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/driaeitak
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