Casey May McGuire

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Terrestrial Apparatus Poised for Lights Out | 2010

image of the Terrestrial Apparatus Poised for Lights Out project

The box trap is constructed out of old scavenged wood from local houses. The box trap’s construction out of these materials refers to the current climate of the housing crisis and it’s effects on the ideology of the “American dream” of owning a home, a house trap. While the winding rope, that will pull the trap shut, sits and waits luring the viewer closer, by forcing them to make out the sounds of Elton John’s Tiny Dancer that plays from inside the trap.

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