f rain, wind, and erosion. To him, time of his work is so important that is one of his most important mediums (Flam XIX). He also mentions the idea of entropy. In nature green plants use light energy from the sun to manufacture carbohydrates for their own needs. Most of this energy is processed and dissipated as heat in respiration. After that it converts the remaining energy to biomass, to both woody and roots. Ultimately, this material, which is stored energy, is transferred to the second level, which will lose energy again. The more steps between producer and final consumer, the less energy remains available. All energy flowing through is dissipated as heat. This process told us energy is more easily lost than obtained, and that in the ultimate future the whole universe will burn out(Flam 11). Smithson did not like the idea of making art with unnatural material such as plastic, chrome and electric light. These materials are not built for the ages, but rather against ages(Flam 11). He wants the artwork to be representing long space of time, the unnatural material just trying to gain few seconds of time (11). He wants the work to be an entropy system, like the rocks, and salts that create some chemical, which during this process it lose energy. He believed that whole energy crisis is a form of entropy. Everything in this world is being processed and falling apart. To Smithson, everything is already destroyed. It's a slow process of destruction. The world is slowly destroying itself. The catastrophe comes suddenly, but slowly(Flam 244).Through the idea of entropy, Smithson is involved with many Environmental issues. The earth is a closed system, there's limited of certain amount of resources. We are trying to save some of these resources by recycling. Smithson believed that this is an attempt to reverse entropy, and thinks it is problematic. He gave an example of people going around collecting bottles and tin cans and whatnot and placi...
