Untitled (Table Top) 2001

Editor: This intriguing piece is "Untitled (Table Top)" by Sarah Sze, currently housed here at Harvard. It’s a delicate assembly of seemingly random objects, almost like a miniature, fragile ecosystem. How do you interpret this work? Curator: It feels like a still life exploded, doesn't it? Sze captures that fleeting moment, the beauty in precarious balance, like a breath held. I feel like I'm observing a scientist's table after an experiment. Does it make you think about ephemerality? Editor: I hadn't thought of it that way, but now I see that sense of fleeting beauty. It does make me wonder about how we try to capture impermanence. Curator: Exactly! It's a quiet rebellion against the monumental, a whisper celebrating the overlooked, the transient. I find it incredibly poetic.