Methods to cope with Entropy

The project Methods to cope with Entropy is based on the creation of a book containing "instructions" or personal observations by the artist, touching upon various aspects of human life, which, to some extent, through their nature or through subterfuge and digressions, are methods of confronting, enduring, or avoiding the processes of transformation, degradation, and chaos inherent to existence. The meditation on these states is achieved both textually and essayistically and through cyanotype interventions found in the book. The book is an artistic object representing a nuanced and specific perspective on both the environment and the subject. The materials from which the book is created are unconventional, a polyplan with glass fiber, which provides a soft texture, resistant to touch and handling, and cyanotypes made on canvas, inserted throughout the pages. These materials were used to convey a tactile and sensory experience when the object is handled by the public. The
materiality of human existence is flexible, fluctuating, metamorphic, resilient, but ephemeral in its condition, a
state emphasized by the nature of the approach to the subject and the practice of touching and manipulating
the artistic object. Topics such as astrology, work time, or social relationships are explored at the intersection of anthropology, psychology, and social studies, marking a personal meditation on how each subject serves as a method of confronting or escaping the state of entropy, or more precisely, the fears and anxieties related to disappearance and degradation. The book does not claim to be a scientific study but rather a review of personal, intimate examinations of the human condition in the face of difficult issues. Cyanotype is a classic printing method traditionally used with a photographic negative, but in this book, it will
be used in a painterly, gestural, and recognizable manner. Cyanotype is a transfer of substance, yellowish, almost invisible when placed on a support. Exposed to sunlight for a period, it reveals results in intense blue shades. The choice of using abstract photographs, taken on film and scanned, printed between chapters, and cyanotypes placed as interventions created on a different type of material, is a strategy for manipulating the photographic medium to highlight the artist's interest, who predominantly works in post-medium and post-photography concepts. The interest in intermedial experimentation is what led to this artist's book, which sits at the intersection of photography, object, and text. The working process took the form of composing the text, searching for unconventional materials for the printing process, assembling the book in the studio by adhering to it, using light-sensitive cyanotype substances to create some graphic or illustrative interventions, and placing them in the final object.

The complete book in digital format can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jSL0yvyCRuTctHwdCbMx5uxPzsbFDgys/view?usp=sharing

Project exhibited in:
EXPLORING PLUREALITIES, Working Artspace and Production, Bucharest, April 2024