Environmental Entropy Digital Sculpture

Environment:
1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
2. Ecology. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time.
3. the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population.
4. Computers. the hardware or software configuration, or the mode of operation, of a computer system: In a time-sharing environment, transactions are processed as they occur.
5. an indoor or outdoor setting that is characterized by the presence of environmental art that is itself designed to be site-specific.
Entropy:
1. Thermodynamics.
a. (on a macroscopic scale) a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, pressure, or composition, that is a measure of the energy that is not available for work during a thermodynamic process. A closed system evolves toward a state of maximum entropy.
b. (in statistical mechanics) a measure of the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system. Symbol: S
2. (in data transmission and information theory) a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message.
3. (in cosmology) a hypothetical tendency for the universe to attain a state of maximum homogeneity in which all matter is at a uniform temperature (heat death).
4. a doctrine of inevitable social decline and degeneration.

After searching artists that include Robert Smithson, Chris Drury, Christo, Richard Long, Alan Sonfist, Erwin Timmers and Rosalie Gascoigne, I have realized that these artists all use natural materials to create their environmental art. The art that I looked at was very interesting and did what good artwork should do; it made me think. One particular artist caught my attention, Rosalie Gascoigne, because her art really made me stop and think, "What is she trying to get across in this picture," .... Awesome!!