Hutch manifests a stereotypical rabbit trap of a pail, a Y-branch, and a line. In line with my love of the hyper-real, the Y-branch has been whittled with a knife to look like the perfect example out of a boyscout handbook. All the bark has been stripped from the branch and the grain has been permitted to age just a bit.

The pail is shiny and new. It is held propped open by the Y-branch. The trip-line is a 100' long white cotton clothesline. One end is attached to the Y-branch with a square knot. When the work is displayed, this line is pulled taut, arming the trap. The line floats off the ground for several feet from the bucket, providing visual evidence of this tension. As it gets further from the pail, the line eventually sags to the floor, terminating in a loose, relaxed coil.

Like many of my works, Hutch has a variable display dimension. The taught line and the loose coil are essential elements, but the precise distance between the coil and the trap depend upon the exhibition environment. This distance should always be long enough to evoke of remoteness from one end of Hutch to the other. Considering the scale of the pail and the coil, the minimal threshold of this distance is somewhere around 30' or 40'.