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About this work

You see a rectangle of thick white paper with a smaller rectangle cut out of the center, then pasted back in slightly off-kilter. The edges are smudged with pencil, like someone traced the cut lines and then rubbed them soft. Waldman made this in 1965, when artists were slicing up paper and gluing it back together just to see what happens. The shift is barely an inch, but it turns a simple sheet into something that feels alive—like it’s breathing. Look up more works that play with paper and space at The Museum of Modern Art.