Woven Histories

Kaolin dust clinging to a restorer’s brush hints at the far-reaching origins woven into porcelain repair—a network of economic activity extending from distant mines to artisan workshops worldwide. The object’s heat, then, isn't simply about its form but registers each transaction involved in its history: material costs, wages, transport fees accumulating like growth rings. This points toward causality as a distributed phenomenon where even acts of restoration implicate broader systems of value and exchange. Recognizing this interconnectedness allows for understanding how entropy represents transformation rather than pure decay within an expansive web.