In this piece John Smith uses a number of projections that are littered through a gallery that embodies a house-like structure to portray numerous amounts of photographs that appropriate real-lif scenarios with the past. However this piece embodied appropriation more than the other images in his series because while at first glance this appears as nothing more than projections in a gallery, the entire piece is appropriating looking out of a window on a dim cloudy day.
He is appropriating a home-like structure as well with how the gallery is set up in a unusual setup that resembles a house. It places the audience in a scenario that may not remind them of home, but possibly a place that they have been or visited, or just witnessed while passing by a town.
It appropriates the viewers memories and takes on a different dynamic of subtle appropriation verses blantant appropriation that would be used by artists such as Andy Warhol.
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