Peter Wegner

Lever Labyrinth

In midtown Manhattan, I created an installation that split the difference between a garden maze and the maze of the city. It occupied the lobby of Lever House, the midcentury skyscraper at 390 Park Avenue. One foreign visitor watched closely as I finished the installation, then took me to see a single piece of paper slightly misaligned with the 2.4 million others. “I am this one,” she told me in halting English.

Lever Labyrinth
Lever Labyrinth

Lever Labyrinth 2.4 million sheets of die cut paper, each 12" x 12", on 50 steel modules with 7 stacks each, dimensions vary, installed: Lever House, NY NY, 2005

Lever Labyrinth 2.4 million sheets of die cut paper, each 12" x 12", on 50 steel modules with 7 stacks each, dimensions vary, installed: Lever House, NY NY, 2005

Lever Labyrinth 2.4 million sheets of die cut paper, each 12" x 12", on 50 steel modules with 7 stacks each, dimensions vary, installed: Lever House, NY NY, 2005

Lever Labyrinth 2.4 million sheets of die cut paper, each 12" x 12", on 50 steel modules with 7 stacks each, dimensions vary, installed: Lever House, NY NY, 2005

Lever Labyrinth A book project I created that conceptually & materially aligns with my Lever Labyrinth installation. Edition of 300.

Lever Labyrinth A book project I created that conceptually & materially aligns with my Lever Labyrinth installation. Edition of 300.

Lever Labyrinth A book project I created that conceptually & materially aligns with my Lever Labyrinth installation. Edition of 300.

Lever Labyrinth installation in progress, view from Park Ave.

Lever Labyrinth installation in progress, view from Park Ave.

Lever Labyrinth original floor plan by Gordon Bunshaft faxed to me by Curator Richard Marshall

Lever Labyrinth installation in progress, view from Park Ave.