A see-saw made up of aluminum ladders that, when walked on,
functions as a bridge.
The fulcrum of the see-saw is 8 feet high. Each of the 4 legs
of the fulcrum is covered with an aluminum ladder that has been
covered, in turn, with a sheet of aluminum. The base of the
bridge, then, is of a kind with the bridge itself.
The floor of the bridge is made up of 2 lines of aluminum ladders,
32 feet long, place side by side and joined together. On each
side is a railing, 2 lines of ladders placed edge to edge one
on top of the other.
The railing functions as a billboard. Between the rails of
each ladder are fixed Plexiglas labels -- red, black, and mirrored
-- on which are printed words, in various typographies, red,
black, and silver. Behind the fixed panels are sliding panels,
that continue the words on the fixed panels. When the bridge
see-saws, a movable panels slides out from behind a fixed panel,
or it slides back behind it.
When a person walks across the see-saw, climbing the ladder,
the low end rises and the high end comes down, with that person's
weight, onto the other side. As the see-saw changes orientation,
one word becomes another word. On one side, MAN becomes MAN-URE;
MOB becomes MOB-IL; NU-CLEAR becomes CLEAR; VENE-REAL becomes
REAL; SAV-AGE becomes AGE; SEXU-ALLY becomes ALLY; ACTION becomes
RE-ACTION-ARY (and vice versa). On the other side, TICS becomes
POLI-TICS; CITY becomes SCAR -CITY; BU-SIN-ESS becomes SIN;
LIBE-RAT-ION becomes RAT; ASS and NATION become ASS-ASSI-NATION
(and vice versa).