Edited sentence: Could one tiny shift in the culture of shoelace usage change our society.Deep blue pigment echoes with the fluorescent blue of the bug-zapping bulb, a beacon from across the gallery floor.Hand-dyed, found shoelaces are planted in the wall, their natural lengths (broken, whole, sometimes knotted) hang from each pore that forms this familiar phrase.He can be seen as a surrealist as much as a conceptual artist in that assemblages remix the familiar to reveal its latent meanings.In keeping with Ward's practice, this is trash made important, rigorously employed to new purposes while retaining its recognizable form.It is embedded halfway up a mean and crusted cage made from the type of metal gate used to close old-fashioned elevators.Materials are listed as wooden ladder, metal gate, shoe tips, plastic, bug-zapper and blue pigment.Nari Ward's installation We the People (2011) made in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.Perhaps Blue Rung is a ruin still glowing, or perhaps it is a ceremonial object, a cage one could stand in to get transported to another dimension, an elevator to the spirit world.The result is uncanny, as if we’re living on the reverse side of a giant embroidery hoop, all the loose threads exposed.The shining, decorative side must show on the other side of the wall, but then it would read backwards.The viewer can make out the items on the list, but their familiarity has been translated through the occult.There is something frightening about Blue Rung (2008).These are the questions that surface while contemplating Ward's work: those that move from mundane to existential, from the dreamscape to the newspaper headline.These materials are our trash, produced by and for (and discarded by) the people who are governed under current interpretations of the U.Ward’s objects are political because they are made from the refuse of our time and place.Ward’s objects send the imagination to many different places.What if every old shoelace was used to rewrite the U.Would that make shoelaces too valuable to throw away or lose