This series is an exploration of textural details, inviting reflection on the spectrum between order and disorder, the place we occupy in the world, and the way in which we shape it.

Human-made structures follow straight lines: ordered doors, ordered books, lined up metal bars, stacked boxes. Disorder infiltrates in time, through the decay of a rusty handle, the chips on a concrete floor, the dirt splatter on an old street phone. Water ripples distort the clean lines of a pool’s mosaic grid. As much as we build stained glass ceilings, it is certain they will shatter one day.

Natural forms of lichens, rust, moss, and bark may seem random, but living systems also decrease entropy locally, ordering atoms, molecules, and cells. While it is not the same structure defined by in straight lines or surfaces, a lichen’s form is ultimately an ordered form. So is a rock - but it too will shatter into higher entropy. Into smaller rocks, to be ground down to pebbles, to be ground down to sand.