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"Mute Is Not An Option"
36" x 36" Acrylic, tape, and all kinds of paper. March 2008
"Detail of Mute Is Not An Option"
"Untitled 3 and 4"
22" x 36" Paper and masking tape. May 2008
"Captured Glance"
38" x 79" Acrylic, tape, and all kinds of paper. December 2007
"Detail of Captured Glance"
"Interference"
46" x 38" Acrylic, tape, and all kinds of paper. Novermber 2007
"Solar Magnetism"
5' x 9' Acrylic, tape, and all kinds of paper. October 2007
"Blue Rider"
36" x 48" Acrylic, tape, and all kinds of paper. September 2007
"Detail of Blue Rider"
"Slightly Shifting"
42" x 42" Acrylic, tape, and all kinds of paper. September 2007
The above works are large collages that are pieced together from fragments of my own paintings and photographs as well as from other found paper, drawings and documents. The pieces are taped into a lattice of painted paper cut into geometrical patterns. The patterns are generated from ideas found in physics and geometry.
I am influenced by science and the human perception of the world. The second law of thermodynamics states that the universe is constantly increasing in entropy, which is usually defined as chaos. When a system reaches ultimate entropy all matter, energy, temperature and light will be evenly spread out in space, thus entropy may also be seen as ultimate order. By cutting up my materials and reordering them I act out the process of entropy. I treat each element with the same importance to assert that order and chaos are the same phenomenon. I am to my work what the second law of thermodynamics is to all matter. I posit that distinctions are futile and theoretical.
Life is the only force that strives to escape increasing entropy. The cells in all living things are self-organizing and programmed to grow with specificity. This is expressed in the patterns, color, and imagery individual to each of my collages. I intend to illuminate and obscure, to simultaneously disorient and ground the viewer.
-February 19, 2008
All images belong to Robyn Engel.