I’m interested in what people are doing. Everybody is always doing something and everybody is producing work and energy input. How do people establish their individual identity in the machine that is our complex civilization? This series is based on physics, thermodynamics (the science of heat and energy transformation.) Conservation of energy is a fundamental law of nature that we call the first law of thermodynamics. This series also contain concept of modern satire and hierarchy.
What if civilization could be considered as a perpetual motion machine? But the infinite loop and replacement of the human race defeats this object, thus producing energy leakage through death. Energy through death is not lost, it is transformed. A perpetual motion machine of the second kind should utilize one hundred percent of the total energy input to be considered as such a machine. Law one of thermodynamics makes the answer to this question; neither a perpetual motion of the first or second kind can support civilization as a machine. This is only a derived impossibility because of the energy transformation. These paintings explore the possibilities of the human race working together as one as a machine if these statistical laws of nature did not exist.
My concept was influenced by Scottish physicists “James Clerk Maxwell” 1813 - 1879 who revolutionized our ideas of heat and motion by arguing that the laws of thermodynamics are statistical laws, rather than exact rules. I took note of this and decided that I wanted to take this idea further by applying the same rules to our civilization as a machine.
