Discarded toys from a recycle center stand in for the red, yellow, and green signal lights housed in a shoebox, painted black. A discarded, beat-up yellow-and-black traffic caution sign became the canvas. Being a strong vertical, it needed something to accompany the shoebox traffic signal. I added one of my son’s discarded Nintendo video hand controllers and a scavenged stovetop heating element. They transformed the traffic signal motif into a video game. I added children’s block letters that spell HIT and MIS(S), and an orange cat to stand-in for the flashing winner’s light on old pinball games. These transitioned the piece from semi-realistic Traffic Signal to an implied virtual traffic game. I added letters suspended on wire spelling VIRTUAL TRAFFIC on either side of the traffic signal