The project I created for my final MFA exhibition is entitled Orchestrate Entropy*.  I arrange everyday objects, classified like subjects in school, on the ground in eight overlapping rows that converge at the center.  The sculptural installations footprint resembles an eight-sided glyph the name of which comes from the Latin asteriscum meaning "little star".  Printers of family trees in Feudal times are attributed with inventing this typographical symbol to indicate that a date was a year of birth.

All of the objects are housed within the confines of a womb-like exploded piano.  The piano parts have become monolithic towers that create a megalithic monument, like those common to ancient people whose religions referenced the cosmos.  The cosmological process of creating order out of chaos has analogous overtones to the balance of the human life cycle of birth and decay.  

The universe can be considered to have generally increasing entropy and gravity causes the dispersed matter to accumulate into stars.  The formation of a star begins when a sufficient density of matter begins to collapse under its own gravitational force.  As the matter gathers and the density increases fusion begins at the core releasing light that radiates through space.

Orchestrate Entropy uses everyday objects paired with ancient ritualistic symbols of death, birth and afterlife to compare designed human artifacts against the background of the sort of complexity found in nature.  In science, conventional design detection methods compare the distinction between natural and artificial design.  Intelligence leaves behind a characteristic signature.  With this installation I investigate the organizing principle of intelligent design as discernible in the objects created by man and the cosmos.