Adam Gilbreath
It’s presently
About
Selected Works
2024
Tucson Section
Once There Was and Once There Wasn’t...
2023
4D
The Garden at the End of Time
White on White #6-8
Untitled #4
2022
Wash Monolith
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Wash Monolith
The objects when viewed together become a larger combined object. Their meaning extends beyond the two distinct objects and generate a conjoined “third object” that is implied. This Implied object exists outside of the material world, it may stem from the material world however the idea of the joined object does not exist in the real world. The formal ordering of the objects and apparent intention of their placement give them meaning beyond their physical existence, and the viewer and occupant perceives this.
The formal ordering of the wash monolith is anti-entropic in nature. A violent act made against the flow of energy in the universe. The knowing assemblage of objects created through human energies and intervention resists the slow descent of the universe into entropy the same way our human bodies do. We eat, burn calories, to fuel our vessels as we resist the entropic pull around us. So, we see similarities between ourselves and acts of creation. Energy was spent to push the objects out of entropic flow and into a higher level of order than they were previously existent in. It becomes a very human act of expression to watch this object decay. It attempts to resist entropy but constant erosion will slowly drag it into decay, this is a parallel to our own existence.