Exhibition Catalog essay for Josephine Halvorson’s solo exhibition, "As I Went Walking." Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, New York, 2017., 2017
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"It is work to “set the wall between us once again,” especially when that invisible for... more Excerpt:
"It is work to “set the wall between us once again,” especially when that invisible force— call it entropy—is also working against our walls, even our creations. What, to take up Robert Frost’s questions once again, is that “something there is that doesn’t love a wall”? That makes the wall continuously give way to cracks upon its surface? What is that force
of Nature that makes all walls yield to entropy, which by stealth creates gaps in the edifice when our backs are turned? Here, is order interrupted by what we so glibly call NATURE, a nature which now threatens to entropy us, as we spiral headlong toward environmental catastrophe."
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"It is work to “set the wall between us once again,” especially when that invisible force— call it entropy—is also working against our walls, even our creations. What, to take up Robert Frost’s questions once again, is that “something there is that doesn’t love a wall”? That makes the wall continuously give way to cracks upon its surface? What is that force
of Nature that makes all walls yield to entropy, which by stealth creates gaps in the edifice when our backs are turned? Here, is order interrupted by what we so glibly call NATURE, a nature which now threatens to entropy us, as we spiral headlong toward environmental catastrophe."
"It is work to “set the wall between us once again,” especially when that invisible force— call it entropy—is also working against our walls, even our creations. What, to take up Robert Frost’s questions once again, is that “something there is that doesn’t love a wall”? That makes the wall continuously give way to cracks upon its surface? What is that force
of Nature that makes all walls yield to entropy, which by stealth creates gaps in the edifice when our backs are turned? Here, is order interrupted by what we so glibly call NATURE, a nature which now threatens to entropy us, as we spiral headlong toward environmental catastrophe."