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Home Improvement
Szu-Han Ho and Jesse Vogler
Digital C-prints 24" x 36"
2008

Combinations of the five most purchased lighting fixtures and flooring materials at Home Depot represent a framework for the American dream at the end of a housing boom. The home improvement industry serves as an index of taste and sentiment as well as an active agent in the architecture of selection—–where choice and variety trump received wisdoms of form and function.

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