Richard Serra first gained renown in the mid-1960s for his sculptures made of nontraditional and often ephemeral materials and invested with traces of his creative process. In Orient #9 Serra has spread a mixture of ink and silica onto a flat surface, against which he presses a sheet of paper with a steel implement, using the weight of his own body to transfer the pigment. As the paper is pulled away, the surface of the print becomes puckered and mottled, preserving a sense of the viscosity of the ink even once it has dried. The work’s title refers to the artist’s home in Orient, New York, on the eastern tip of Long Island.