The grid is the quintessential human organizing principle, corralling space, movement, energy, thought. Consider: city planning, the electrical grid, graph paper. From its earliest promise to hold, contain, and control, the grid has faced off against the inevitable disintegration of order, the dissolution of fixed form into chaos. Entropy and the Grid is a study of this process in four parts.

Broken Grid and Domestic Mysteries III
Domestic Mysteries III
2015
Digital prints on aluminum Dibond, mounted on maple panel
48" x 48"
Energy Unleashed
2017
Found and re-purposed household materials and objects, digital images on paper, stake flags, Hydrocal castings
Dimensions variable (minimum 48” x 96” x 15”)
Energy Unleashed and Energy Muted
2017
Energy Unleashed (detail)
2017
Energy Unleashed (detail)
2017
Energy Unleashed (detail)
2017
Energy Unleashed (detail)
2017
Energy Muted (detail)
2017
Hydrocal castings, MDF panel, shelf
Variable (minimum 24” x 24” x 10” grid of four)
Energy Muted (detail)
2017
Hydrocal castings, MDF panel, shelf
Variable (minimum 24” x 24” x 10” grid of four)
Broken Grid
2017
Heavy gauge wire fencing, Hydrocal castings, MDF panels
36” x 36” x 4”
Broken Grid (detail)
2017


All images copyright Nancy D. Brown

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