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James Leonard - Hutch, with hand-carved Y branch propping up a galvanized metal bucket, set as a trap
James Leonard - Hutch, detail of a knot tied to a carved Y branch
James Leonard - Hutch. view of a cartoonish metal bucket trap from the end of a long rope
James Leonard - Hutch, detail of the end of a coiled clothesline
James Leonard - Hutch, with hand-carved Y branch propping up a galvanized metal bucket, set as a trap
James Leonard - Hutch, detail of a knot tied to a carved Y branch
James Leonard - Hutch. view of a cartoonish metal bucket trap from the end of a long rope
James Leonard - Hutch, detail of the end of a coiled clothesline

Hutch

$4,000.00

2003
Aluminum pail, clothesline, and whittled stick 
Installation dimensions variable

A pail, a Y-branch, and a 100' long white cotton clothesline are arranged to evoke an archetypical rabbit trap. 

The Y-branch has been whittled with a knife to look like the perfect example out of a Boy Scout handbook; the clothesline is attached at one end to the Y-branch via a square knot. When the work is displayed, this line is pulled taut. The line floats off the ground for several feet from the bucket due to tension. As it gets further from the pail, the line eventually sags to the floor, turning, ending in a circular coil.