Richard Serra let go of painting at that moment, but he didn't let go of art. He moved to New York City, and he put together a list of verbs — to roll, to crease, to fold — more than a hundred of them, and as he said, he just started playing around. He did these things to all kinds of material. He would take a huge sheet of lead and roll it up and unroll it. He would do the same thing to rubber, and when he got to the direction "to lift," he created this, which is in the Museum of Modern Art.
. Richard Serra napustio je slikarstvo u tom trenutku, ali nije napustio umjetnost. Preselio se u New York , i sastavio popis glagola -okretati, nabrati, slagati- više od stotinu njih, i kako je rekao, počeo se igrati. Činio je te stvari svim vrstama materijala. Uzeo bi veliki komad olova i uvijao ga i ispravljao ga. Istu stvar činio je i s gumom i kad je došao do smjera „podići" stvorio je ovo, što se nalazi u Muzeju suvremene umjetnosti.