Nine panels form a pattern in which freshly printed, folded newspapers move along the winding conveyor belts of a large printing press. At individual gaps in the chain, the newspaper becomes visible. In the overall image, the conveyor belts merge into an endless entanglement with no beginning or end. The work runs in a continuous loop.

Is this production for production’s sake? Is the endless stream of news—here literally an endless stream of folded newspapers—a river of communication pumping blood into the societal body, keeping it alive and kicking? Is it already a museum, as news have found other forms to reach their readers? In any case, it appears a masterpiece of engineering, too complex to behold. Typical for the news, the papers even twist while being printed, running up and down and sideways along the conveyor belts. The visual meditation may suit any context dealing with media history, the history of paper-bound communication, or the engineering of large-scale machines. Likewise, it works as a psychedelic image of calm in high speed.

Movement guides the eye—here over the edge of one panel into the adjacent image and further on into the next. Nine panels are connected through the depicted movement into a unified whole, revealing repetition, control, and complex pathways. Presented as a complex machine, appearing as an aesthetic pattern, the printing press no longer functions as a tool, but as an end in itself.