The project explores the monotony of existence through a minimalist staircase that functions as a symbol of a closed loop—an ongoing cycle with no clear exit. Reduced to its bare essentials, the staircase becomes a visual metaphor for repetition: ascending, descending, and returning to the same point, again and again. Its spare form heightens awareness of routine, wear, and the quiet pressure of time that accumulates through everyday movement.
Inspired by the second law of thermodynamics, the installation stages the concept of irreversibility—a one-way trajectory in which each step alters what comes next. Like entropy, the work suggests that life unfolds as a directional process that cannot be reversed or restored to an earlier state. The staircase operates as an experiential device—part architecture, part mental model—making perceptible the tension between the desire to return and the impossibility of “going back.” Moving between sculpture and conceptual installation, the project proposes a reflection on the human condition, repetition as structure, and time as a system that advances without rewind.
