Caution: Regime may collapse

This AR intervention replaces a standard urban warning sign that originally read “Caution: Possible Falling Icicles” with the altered message “Caution: Possible Regime Collapse”.

By modifying a familiar public safety notice, the work introduces a sharp political double meaning. It draws attention to the fragility not of frozen structures, but of authoritarian power.

The play on words shifts the viewer’s focus from physical danger to systemic instability and invites reflection on the quiet presence of dissent hidden in plain sight.

The intervention appropriates the visual language of public safety to articulate a suppressed political possibility. What is usually treated as an uncontrollable natural hazard becomes a metaphor for systemic instability, suggesting that regimes, like icicles, can fall suddenly and without warning.