To roxy paine, airport security is more than a hassle. It's art. The New York-based sculptor has turned mundane spaces like a fast food restaurant and a control room into painstakingly detailed dioramas. For his newest piece, Checkpoint, Paine spent 10 months carving, cutting, and CNC-milling more than 8,000 pieces of maple into a TSA screening station, down to the bending flaps of the x-ray machines. The original model is 75 feet long, so Paine used forced perspective to squeeze it all in; his version is 13 feet tall in front but just 5 feet high in back. It's a technical triumph, but Paine's real accomplishment is reinterpreting a place so universally loathed. "When you're in this space in real life, you can't wait to get through it," he says. A chance to linger at his checkpoint, though, would be worthmissing a flight.
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