Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze builds things. Amazingly intricate things. One of the best things about this book is that it's organized chronologically, so you get to see the things she builds get bigger and bigger and crazier and crazier as time goes on. To start, she's filling up the corner of a room at SVA...

But before long she's filling larger and larger spaces with an ever-increasing variety of things in ever-increasingly complex assemblages...

This next one is actually how her work originally came to my attention--this very deconstructed car flew off the staircase of SFMOMA and out into empty space for the better part of a year. Every time I would climb the stairs at the museum I was mesmerized...