Nor is he a pile of sand.
"If you want to use a blue pile of sand to represent a zero, and red pile of sand to represent a one, you can split each pile of sand in half, and still have the same information.
"The metaphor is a pile of sand," said Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody's Analytics.
"We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand," he said last week.
This ephemeral piece, almost a mini-Earthwork, consisted of a pile of sand that was gradually flattened by air currents from four industrial fans.
A case could be made, however, that this past off-season diminished the Jets – much the way a windstorm diminishes a pile of sand.
The first image we see is among the most arresting: a pile of sand from which a skeletal figure slowly, slowly emerges.
His early works included a pile of sand, stacks of folded burlap and dozens of short lengths of thick rope spread on the floor.
"And there, too," he said, pointing out a pile of sand way below that he said was also part of the cliff wall just 24 hours earlier.
"You've got a crucifix and a bottle of urine and canned faeces, and [someone] doing nothing, and a pile of sand in a museum – what is left?
Last summer, at a quarry in western Connecticut, I put my hand into a big pile of sand that was the pinkish-gray color of calamine lotion.
