temples to -entropy

Nicholas Agafontsev

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Good is presence of life

and the animacy of a being is connected to the uniqueness of their expression, where sensitive, un-imposed practices of processes sustain the creation of new form.

Beauty is evidence of life.

How do we aim towards increasing life?

How does animacy increase? Where does it originate?

The centre, now.

Look closer.

The water-filled lens looks at a miniature wetland, a temple directing the viewer towards the low and wet, the primordial swamp.

A mind map, a scroll six feet six inches long, for a process of non-linear thinking.

Everywhere there is a theme in relation to life.

Myself intimate with materiality, experimenting with materials that are minimally altered. Their own expression is revealed, a layer of their own form.

Distance from the maker to the made make high-tech difficult to implement in a sensitive way.

Addictions reduce our sensitivity and our agency as it relates to material reality.

A kinetic, human scaled and sound generating installation made from red cedar, pine, jute, muslin, bitumen, steel wire, nails, seashells, concrete, river-stones, maple branches with lichens, wetland mud, plant samples, water.

Something the human can apply…

Apprehend the spirits before everything.

And direct your vision through infinite oracles.

The cosmic significance of biology is that it is the explosion of original form before the collapse into nothingness.

Nicholas Agafontsev

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They are a human being inhabiting what some call the cascadian bioregion. They originate in biology and they aim to world-build reality into a maze saturated with expression. Through many subtle interventions, inventions, conceptions, they find meaning in liveliness, designing wold-views and fantasizing situations that animate themselves towards ever-escalating degrees of life. They curated Essences of Life (2025), and their work has featured in Entanglements (2025) and S as in Entropy (2024) in Emily Carr.

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