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Nevertheless, 2004
Installation for the Provincetown Art Association and
Museum,
Murchison Gallery, Provincetown, MA., June 2004.
The Edge of Chaos
A place at the edge of chaos allows for change, sensitivity and openness.
It is a dynamic state. Science is coming to understand that there
are self-organizing systems where complex and unpredictable substrates
develop simple, large scale patterns. The whirlpool is an example
of this sort of self-organizing system. Energy moves through it
without the structure breaking down, creating a dynamic order.
Disappearing
The things suspended here are obsolete, worn by time, caught
in the moment just before they disappear entirely. Their world is
already gone. Most of them were used before we existed. Natureís
detritus has also been caught just before it dissolves into nothingness.
All appears to be whirling, yet we know it is still. Things appear
weightless, yet we know they are not. Nevertheless is suspended
for a moment between being and not being.
