“KAINOS FE2O3: Explorations in Entropy” Beards first solo show, contains some truthful insight into the way of the world that doesn’t simply represent ‘reality’ as an objective construct but is somehow ontologically coherent with the aliveness of being in the world  - as a shared ephemeral experience which is in constant state of becoming. following from Barbara Adam’s elucidation of the  Natura Naturata /Natura Naturens dichotomy i.e Nature natured i.e manifest as physical stuff Vs nature naturing as a force of perpetual becoming (Barbara Adam 2004; Barbara Adam 1998) more akin to the ‘Conatus’ that philosophical concept used historically by Baruch Spinoza and others to describe the inherent  ’will to live’ manifest throughout nature- though not reserved solely for living organisms.  By engaging the thermodynamic dynamic process of oxidisation and decomposition of iron, Beard uses rust to remind us that even something so seemingly fixed and permanent is in the process of change thereby highlighting the tension between the universal entropic tendency towards dispersal and life’s capacity to create order and beauty from chaos In a ‘negentropic’ “localised reversal of the arrow of time” (B. Adam 2006)