The piece – Recycling Sculpture (World Trade Center Memorial) – was made in 2005 as Horowitz was considering the lasting trauma of the 9/11 attacks. Since its creation, it has been featured in Jonathan’s mid-career retrospective at MoMA PS1 in 2009 (curated by Klaus Biesenbach), and a group show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2012 titled Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity (curated by Michael Darling).

The sculpture is set up with two ‘towers’ laid out with blue tape, spaced out to match the width of the New York Times. Each day, the morning’s newspaper is added to the top of either stack, in equal measure, so that both rise over the course of the piece’s installation. Once both stacks are filled to the top, the newspapers are recycled and the piece is emptied – mirroring the fall of the towers, visually and emotionally.