CRIT:
I found the critic to be really confusing on this one. When making the project, I was going to make it so that the outside had a bunch of ads wallpapered, and on the inside have it be blank. The idea was an interpretation of how I felt bought advertisements. As I was making it, I was told to change it into a trap, sending the message that advertisements are a trap to consumers and to leave the outside blank wood, as if it were a rabbit trap or something. As we did critics, I was then told I should have wallpapered the outside with ads, which completely threw me though a loop.
In the end though, I felt that the ads were better left on the inside, because a trap needs to be plain, since you want to throw off the person that it is a trap. I think the plainess of the outside really works with the deception of "Trap." You don't expect it to be one, but it is. There should have been more ads taped to the inside though, to give a more cluttered appeal of advertisements in our society.
photos are by Dana
