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• Carnot Cycle

  November, 2022

  Watercolor on Paper

  45 x 20 inches

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• I have been developing a process of applying layers of paint and color and then excavating those layers, revealing the colors underneath. That excavation process sometimes involves spraying water or scrubbing the surface layers with solvents. As part of that process, I've also been painting on various surfaces, peeling up the dried paint and then reapplying it to the painting surface, as seen here. This painting reminds me of the law of conservation of energy: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It also feels like states of matter are converting from one to another. Transferring paint chips from one surface to another is rather delicate. Things can fall apart at any moment, much like any life circumstance or some of the engineered systems on which we might depend. The Carnot Cycle is a physics concept where energy is transferred, but entropy is neutralized.

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