Paradox was intended to be a large, collaborative exhibition, but could not be staged because of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. The show existed in the minds of the collaborators, curators and writers right up to the deadline for mounting the exhibition, but finally appeared only virtually on the Museum’s website. Ultimately, Paradox appeared in the form of a catalog-as-artists’-book (thank you, Helen!). Buzz Spector writes in his catalog essay: “In their original prospectus for this project the artists described their “Paradox” as an installation of contradictory inter-related elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time, and that grow from empathy rather than rational thought. Architectonic sculptural forms by Pestel and Yamaguchi were intended to interact with the architecture of the Katzen Art Center, while Frederick’s work of transcribed writing in-and-onto hand-formed paperworks was to be so mounted as to become a suspended wall (a paradoxical assertion, to be sure). Projections of artist-made videos, sound environments, and live performance by the renowned Japanese Butoh dancer, Taketeru Kudo, were to be additional parts of the experience.