Bayyinah C. Pierre
Prof. Sacha Frey
Intro Lit/Crit Arch I
September 17th 2012
Robert
Smithson, “Energy is more
easily lost than obtained.”
“Instead
of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem
to cause us to forget about the future”, stated Robert Smithson. In his essay, Entropy
and the new monuments, Smithson emphasizes time, values, solidity, and change. From
my interpretation of his essay, time comes with change, values are no longer
applicable, and solidity determines age.
He mentioned plastic and other materials, artists were
using today were against the ages. In other words, we are destroying the environment.
Technology and greed has not allowed us to be “sub-monumental.” None of us would prefer to turn gold into
cement, we would have liked the opposite which aligns with one of Smithson’s
concept, and we can’t really see the future we are stuck in the present and
past.
Where is time? What is the difference between action and
reaction? What is the actual meaning of entropy to you?
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