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The installation consisted of a six foot ladder and a chalk outline of a body on the floor, with two audio soundtracks, one of people talking about "up" times in their lives and one of people talking about feeling "down". When visitors climbed the ladder, the "up" soundtrack was played more loudly, and vice versa. Utterback writes in her 2004 essay "Unusual Positions": "Through its interface, this piece explores the embodiedness of language itself.