The Preservation of Entropy



A time-based work on decay and energy presented in 6 museum vitrines, containing 3 hand blown glass flasks of acid, alkaline and salt solution coloured with PH indicator, each with 3 rods of copper, iron and aluminium monitored by 3 IBM Dos computers, their screens displaying the complex changes of electrical energy between the metals as screen traces over seconds, minutes, hours and days, weeks and years.