Ice Makes Fire: Paul Kos with Jarrett Earnest

Let’s begin with the first work in the show, Sand Piece (1971), which is a cone of fine white sand, slowly growing by way of a continual stream of sand trickling down from the ceiling. In the gallery directly above it, where the piece begins, is another much larger pile, one ton of sand, transforming the two galleries of Nyehaus into an hourglass. How did this work come about?