This sculpture aims to represent the relationship between categorised ways of thinking and the actual flexible nature of our minds. Control versus natural chaos/ natural order. This relationship is revealed in several ways. For one, through a mechanical piece, the wheel, the cog, that while implying being a fitting that is rigid, inflexible, there is also connectedness; it is permeable. Yet it is entirely one thing. The cog only implies connection, it is not supposed to fit into another, it is the whole, it is all. An entity unified like the line of a circle.

The order and chaos mentioned refers to the seemingly arbitrary nature of things, yet everything fits perfectly into its right place. Cause and effect, the chaos of the butterfly effect is the exact paradoxical order, because things are never isolated. An isolated event would be definitively and singularly random.

What this has to do with the mind is the power of intention on a quantum level, and the way our will influences things. The manifestation of thoughts becomes absolutely relevant on the subject of cause and effect.

The slides represent the categorised thinking. They are built to be rearranged in the fittings of the gears, and to break during this process, to show the effects of interaction and natural change that plunges so called order into so called chaos.

 

The hour glass represents the duality of permeable interactions that perpetuates existence without beginning or end, as the hour glass can be turned, “resetting” time. The running sand symbolises the “infra-thin”.