Rune Werner Molnes

Rune Werner Molnes - photographer, environmental activist and visual artist who mainly focuses on subjects such as existentialism, landscape conservation and rural decay.

About the series “Entropy Project”:
This project is comprised of portraits of old, abandoned houses along the coast of Northern Norway and Iceland.
These entropy-ridden houses are first and foremost thought as a visual, aesthetic and emotional experience. I hope to invoke a whisper towards the sublime or perhaps instil cognitive dissonance as an invitation to open up a new layer of interpretation.
The concept of entropy derives from thermodynamics. It usually refers to the idea that everything in the universe moves from order to disorder, and entropy is the measurement of that change. It predicts the gradual ebbing out of the universe as well as the demise of the buildings in this project. The word entropy finds its roots in the Greek entropia, which means "a turning toward" or "transformation."
Through these photographs I attempt to convey the soul of these buildings and the memory of a culture where the reasons for abandonment are very similar. The way of living in these areas have changed radically during the last decades, mainly due to structural changes in the fishery industry, changes in demographics as well as general centralization of industries and other services.

Submitted by In The Gallery