Melbourne Design Week is well underway and with so much local talent on show . Here is my piece ~ Entropy ~ which is featured in @friends.associates SELF PORTRAIT . Entropy explores the fundamental and irrefutable notion that disorder is always on the rise, that as energy disperses, decay and disaggregation are inevitable. The arrow of time exists exclusively in relation to this. Time is not linear and yet we experience it as thus because of what it takes away from us: from the seemingly trivial to the existential – the physical degradation of the human form. Entropy is all that distinguishes the past from the future . In life, experiences such as loss, heartbreak, and suffering all become exceedingly unavoidable. People you love get sick. Lovers part. Connections fail. Life gets truly complicated, increasingly and irrevocably so. . This self portrait is both a personal and collective reflection on the last 24 months. A literal reference to the increasing agitation of once ordered molecular structures, manifested via a dreamlike sequence of interconnecting parts. Hints of the feminine and the architectural provide a subtle homage to the more superficial yet essential aspects of the designer’s identity. It is a compression of a temporal timeline, revealing the beauty and the texture that emerges from both a singular and shared human experience of existence – of letting go in the face of ever increasing chaos . . . Self Portrait is part of Melbourne Design Week 2022 and organised by @ngvmelbourne in collaboration with Creative Victoria #melbournedesignweek . . . 17– 27 March RMIT Design Hub Building 100, Victoria St Carlton @rmitdesignhub . . . Photo by @amanda_santamaria