Chaos
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Designed by
Tony Smith
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Built by Hortus infinitus
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Current rating
2.6
(27 ratings)
Chaos is concerned with the ideas behind chaos theory, intelligent design and fate.
At first glance, Chaos seems to be anything but random or chaotic, given its precise structure. However, on closer inspection the texture of the blocks and the pattern of the duckweed do appear random or chaotic. As Edward Lorenz discovered in 1960, things that appear random are in fact complex systems that can be understood but not predicted by chaos theory.
The very process of creating this installation is rooted in chaos. Tony did not set out to design an installation about chaos theory; it appeared in his mind as a result of his many and disparate experiences, on top of the billions of coincidences that result in his existing. He can therefore claim no credit for the garden’s existence other than that it would not exist without him, and an immeasurable number of other coincidences.