As a whole I found the Claire Rau exhibition very odd. The art work ranged from prints, to sculptures, to noise making devices. Before she spoke about the work I was left with the impression that most of the art was somewhat random and didn't make any sense to me at all. The shows title was "booby traps." She was in a army family so this seemed to influence her a lot.
I chose to write about the noise making booby trap. It is modeled after a Canadian parking bumper. The dimensions are supposed to be exactly the same as an actual bumper. I've never been to Canada so I'm not sure if the gray and yellow stripped colors are the same as well. So there is only one difference between this piece and a bumper; the leg and string which turns this into a trap. When someone walks by it pulls out the leg and the bumper comes crashing down.
As she said the concept behind this is to show how unobservant people really are. Also carelessness. In order to trip the wire you have to walk between the bumper and the center wall instead of just walking around. People generally disregard anything below eye level and of course we do not normally look for trip wires in unexpected places.
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