Steven Siegel – newspapers become earth

Siegel’s Squeeze 2, from 1998-99. What does it look like now? Earth to earth, dust to dust, newspaper wall to soil.

Wrote John Perreault:

Steven Siegel elected to start with a grove of trees. A seemingly solid mound or wall of newspapers interacts with the trees and slumps to fit the slope; the newsprint stratum is topped by turf, further uniting the piece with the environment. This, the most unusual artwork in the exhibition, makes gravity, geology, and even time visible.

Time visible indeed, especially for those of us who thought we had forever.