Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze’s large-scale installations often feature an accumulation of found everyday objects, but here she uses a subtractive process to create a self-contained wall sculpture depicting a common object. Sze made a two-dimensional lined notepad and transformed it into a three-dimensional cascading series of balconies, ladders, and staircases that re-create in miniature the fire escapes characteristic of old New York City apartment buildings. The paper is browned at the edges-evidencing the process of laser engraving. All the tiny rectangular pieces of paper that were cut away to create the multilayered architectural form are collected in a pile on the floor.