Schrödinger’s negative entropy

Schrödinger spoke about life being a kind of negative entropy and this is close to the Buddhist idea of life force that brings parts together to form a whole which is life. Buddhism says it is possible to fuse our microcosmic life with the macrocosm. And the opposite of this positive force would be entropy. Of course everything is subject to the law of entropy, everything born matures then decays and dies. But before everything turns to dust perhaps we are able to inscribe our thoughts and feelings, our lives, on canvas?

To be able to draw by gathering marks on paper must also be negative entropy, it’s a hope I can somehow create life, leave a record of my own vital life, through mark-making. Like leaving footprints which can be read by an astute observer – how fast were they travelling? How big were they? What were they thinking? Where were they going? What were their hopes, dreams? Everything is recorded there.

I become the form and rise and fall down across the musculature of the form. In an infinite and immeasurable universe our lives can also only be the same, infinite and immeasurable . And our physical lives reflect this. Hence for me the human figure is the most alluring, challenging, and beautiful thing in art.