2018

Sculpture, Installation

Overall dimension: 3100×2300/mm

A human body is lying on a slide. This work is depicting that a life-form like us is different from other materials and resists to fall down from order to disorder. It is said that the whole system of universe moves toward “increase of entropy” or “heat death” and every materials will progress to disorder and come to indistinguishable from surroundings.  Only a life-form continues to maintain its order. In the book “What is Life?”, physicist Erwin Schroedinger pointed to this situation and explained that living bodies are feeding on negentropy or negative entropy. Each life-form eventually die one after another but they maintain most of their system to the next generation by their unique reproductive activities. After all, in a certain way, it can also say that life-forms have uninterruptedly maintained their order on the earth for about 3.8 billion years.