Entropy began as a photograph taken in my studio.  I had a still life set up in the corner. A fellow artist was sitting in a chair petting my dog, Sophie.

I began the painting in a traditional way blocking in the composition in charcoal on canvas and then loosely adding local color with acrylic paint.

I became very interested in describing the quality of light streaming through the windows hitting the chair and floor.  I painted from life using the photo as a reference.

In the final stages of Entropy, the painting became more abstract as I began to collage onto the canvas.  There is only a suggestion of the figure.  The objects begin to fragment as they unhinge from gravity and the entropy of the scene increases.