Clare Strand

The Entropy Pendulum , is a specially constructed apparatus that continuously sets a pendulum in motion. As it swings, the pendulum's abrasive weight scrapes across 35 individual photographs from the artist’s archive, gradually wearing them down. This slow erosion inscribes itself into the image surface as both presence and loss.
On each day of the exhibition, one photo from the set is placed beneath the pendulum. At a time determined by the gallerist, the image is removed and placed into one of 35 empty frames on the gallery wall. Once all 35images are framed, the process is complete.
The Entropy Pendulum is both a machine and a metaphor, capturing the immaterial logic of the digital through tactile, analouge means. In response to the immense spread of immaterial images online — which are scrolled, harvested, scraped, grabbed and re-framed — the pendulum performs a gesture of degradation and reinvention.
The photographs that enter the Pendulum come from the artist’s specific areas of interest — magic, industry, telepathy, technology, and communication.

.The Entropy Pendulum makes reference to Claude Shannon’s concept of information entropy, whereby 'information,' 'surprise' and 'uncertainty' are inherent to the circulation of imagery and data.

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This work is adaptable to the duration and theme of future showings.