rufino q. jimenez

Conceptual

The conceptual works are the practice at the level of its structure. Each takes one part of how a work of art holds and makes that part the work. A drawing of all art that has ever been or will be draws the structure of art itself from a small set of axioms; it was performed on a chalkboard, walked through aloud and erased, and what exists now is a facsimile, an incomplete memory. where does the sadness lie, gregg bordowitz takes the body's register: a year of grief, dried to salt, seeding a crystal that grew a form of its own. Artist Statement is the statement drawn as the system it describes, with the reader entering from outside. The Ethics of Entropy maps the entangled structure of the research itself, more than two thousand atomic ideas and the relations between them on a hyperbolic disk, run as a thermodynamics; it is a conceptual work and it is the research, the framework operating on itself, complete only to the edge of its own frame. These works are evaluated the way systems aesthetics proposes: by their inputs, their outputs and their relational structure rather than by their material properties.

The Ethics of Entropy in energy overlay: the hyperbolic disk seen from the side as a three-dimensional bulk, coloured flows arcing above it, the map's panels at each side
The Ethics of Entropy2026 · browser-based interactive work · energy overlay, three-dimensional bulk The research vault mapped onto a hyperbolic disk and run as a thermodynamics: a conceptual work that is also the research. The full account and a filmed tour are on the PhD Research page.
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ARTIST STATEMENT SYSTEMS · ARCHITECTURE · AESTHETICS — DRAWN AS THE SYSTEM IT DESCRIBES I · GIVENS dS ≥ 0 the one direction no contact no contact reachable a path picks its way cone by cone ct x x = ±ct contact ⇔ ds² = c²dt² − |dx|² ≥ 0 light structures causality; entropy orients it II · THE FOLD V(x) = ¼x⁴ + ½ax² + bx the sheet: V′(x) = x³ + ax + b = 0 collapse, reorganise smooth sheet — small adjustments hold 4a³ + 27b² = 0 what reinforces itself is carried over the fold; collapse is reorganisation toward the gradient III · CIRCULATION exergy in — the gradient anergy out — exergy stripped in the descent Ex_destroyed = T₀·S_gen return — at another scale LINEARISE — cut the manifold to an actable line MEET AN OUTSIDE REALITY matter · ideas · mathematics · other minds THE WELL — the descent converts RE-GROUND r = r₀e^(−λθ) κ 0.2 ≤ κ ≤ 0.5 t → x(t) seen in time, circulation is oscillation the same circulation at every scale: cell · ecology · ethic κ, the circulation index — the fraction of flow that returns the well turns because the gradient passes through it — circulation is open, or it is not circulation; the descent strips exergy to anergy, and what returns, returns at another scale IV · THE CONVECTION OF VALIDATION Ra = gβΔT·d³ ⁄ (ν·α) — structure appears at Ra > Ra_c schema — it holds; it can hold dogma an outside reality — inexhaustible gradient of the new d the cells tile a claim, carried helically through the cell A ∝ e^(σt) incorporation agitation the truth is the structure itself, standing in the flow; the schema only holds — and a schema can hold dogma Ra_c = 27π⁴⁄4 ≈ 657.5 conduction — dogma the cell holds breakdown — see II a truth holds its shape by the convection of validation — agitation, the friction of the new, at the boundary; incorporation into the schema. sealed below onset it is dogma (F ⊬ Cons F); overdriven, it breaks and reorganises dogma Ra < Ra_c — the gradient conducts past; nothing stands. the only closed curve here V · THE BOUNDARY 1312 1261 207 1181 0 the researcher its readers an outside reality claims out, for testing 2,037 ideas · 6,664 relations every claim carries its state of validation ds = 2|dz| ⁄ (1−|z|²) — the rim is infinitely far not a closed archive: a living research boundary, reorganising as the returns arrive u1 u6 VI · ETHICS ethics enters as diagnosis — the ought marks where a circulation has been severed — and as prosthesis: the small adjustments that steer it back toward the gradient Systems persist through circulation — the small adjustments by which a self-sustaining system meets its gradient; what fails to meet it collapses and reorganises until it does, locally or across scales. you, reading — validation entering at two scales: into the work, as part of its internal convection of validation — and onto its frame: the context that places it within art and systems aesthetics Statement drawn as the system it describes. Node positions and counts as in the running work (ECT Entanglement Map, 2026); layers at r = tanh(u·ln2⁄2). I · what may touch — II · Thom: how it falls — III · the open well — IV · truth as convection — V · the boundary — VI · ethics as diagnosis.
Artist Statement2026 · animated schematic, drawn in SVG and CSS The statement drawn as the system it describes. On a desktop, rest the pointer on each panel: the motion is the mechanism. Open at full size. The written statement is on the artist statement page.
A drawing of all art that has ever been or will be: a chalkboard covered in white diagrams and equations, from a square and a triangle to a nested sphere, a spiral and an integral
A drawing of all art that has ever been or will be.48 × 96 in · pastel on chalkboard Facsimile of the drawing performed, walked through aloud and erased at the MFA defence, 2016.
where does the sadness lie, gregg bordowitz: a small white crystal hanging by a filament from a curved copper wire, over a charcoal block
where does the sadness lie, gregg bordowitz2016 · 6 × 4 × 4 in · salt, copper, filament, charcoal block Crystal grown from the artist's tears.