A decade later, Baker printed a tabloid newspaper, “President: ‘Why?’”, which served as a catalog for a 2018 exhibition, and realized he could create a conceptual loop by reproducing in it one of the “Jornada” abstractions. For those two pages in the tabloid he added magenta to emphasize the long-term irradiation of the desert, caused by the half-lives of nuclear elements in fallout from weapons testing and in the radioactive waste being stored in vast subterranean chambers in the Southwest. The four printing plates that had been utilized to print the tabloid’s “Jornada del Muerto +250,000 Years” spread — covered with inks and solvents in uncontrolled and unpredictable manners — became ready-made artworks, despite the pressmen viewing them as suitable only for recycling the aluminum substrates. These two pages were complemented by another set featuring images such as an existential quote from President Nixon—“Why?”—and a frame from Abraham Zapruder’s 8mm film of the JFK assassination. The vibrant, lava-lamp-like blobs of color evoked a title combining tragedy and elegance: “Zapruder Rising,” a collection of four plate paintings.