back on the track of expectation overload

thinking about getting a dwarf keffir lime tree.

Reading the “Shannon Ebner” article in ANPQ vol. 2 no.2 2008

p.19

BF: And I wanted to ask you about Entropic, you are referring to entropic explosives, right? How did you create that work, structurally?

SE: No, I am not referring to explosives in that image. That image’s title is OPIC which is a play on the words optic or scopic as in scopophillia. That image was my attempt to take an overused word out of circulation and to renvent it through the act of photographing. My interest in that word in particular had a lot to do with Robert Smithson and an essay about Ruscha’s work by Yves Alain Bois, in which he talks about words having a temperature and that when they get too “hot”, too overused, that they subject themselves to an entropic process, an absolute breakdown.

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Maybe from:

Bois, Yve-Alain. Thermometers Last Forever. Ed Ruscha: Romance with Liquids. Exhibition catalogue. Gagosian Gallery, Rizzoli. New York, 1993.

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