PERMISSION TO PLAY
MAGNIFICENT MOUSETRAP, MAGNIFIED
THERE’S SOMETHING INHERENTLY DELIGHTFUL about a familiar object made gigantic. Mark Perez’ Life Size Mousetrap taps into this whimsy-by-magnification as it transforms the children’s board game Mouse Trap into a Technicolor variety show. It’s a 30-foot-high, 16-piece, 50,000-pound, Rube Goldberg-style interactive kinetic sculpture set on a 6,500-square-foot game board, with an entourage of clown engineers and can-can dancer mice. An iconic crowd-pleaser at Maker Faire, the spectacle culminates in dropping a 2-ton bank safe from a crane. lifesizemousetrap.org
—Laura Cochrane
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