Robert Smithson states on the subject of entropy, “You have a closed system which eventually deteriorates and starts to break apart and there’s no way that you can really piece it back together again. Another example might be the shattering of Marcel Duchamp Glass, and his attempt to put all the pieces back together again attempting to overcome entropy. Buckminister Fuller also has a notion of entropy as a kind of devil that he must fight against and recycle.” SELECTED INTERVIEWS WITH ROBERT SMITHSON, Entropy Made Visible (1973), Interview with Alison Sky. In my estimation, entropy is when a few of your favorite things, in short order, f-ing fall apart.
Kenny Schachter