{"id":826,"date":"2009-07-19T16:22:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/07\/steven_siegel_-_newspapers_bec\/"},"modified":"2009-07-19T16:22:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T23:22:31","slug":"steven_siegel_-_newspapers_bec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/steven_siegel_-_newspapers_bec.html","title":{"rendered":"Steven Siegel &#8211; newspapers become earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Siegel&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosensculpture.org\/exhibit.php4?entriesid=61\"><i>Squeeze 2<\/i><\/a>, from 1998-99. What does it look like now? Earth to earth, dust to dust, newspaper wall to soil.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stevensiegelsqueeze.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/stevensiegelsqueeze.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"302\" height=\"198\" \/><\/span>Wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/\">John Perreault<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Time visible indeed, especially for <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/art\/archives\/164280.asp\">those of us<\/a> who thought we had forever.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siegel&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}