Entropy as Form: Why Disorder is My Material There is a moment in the studio when a painting begins to resist me. The volcanic lava I work with — ground, raw, dense with geological memory — spreads where I didn't intend. The surface opens up, pulls inward, breathes in ways I didn't plan. For years I thought this was a problem to solve. Now I understand it is the work itself. Entropy — the tendency of all systems toward disorder — is not the enemy of form. It is form. In physi