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Yumi Janairo Roth disrupts the familiar, re-contextualizing everyday objects to function as both natives and interlopers in their environments. Stacked Datsun utilizes wooden pallets, the workhorses of domestic and international shipping—continuously recycled, constantly traveling, transporting hundreds of pounds of goods from destination to destination and always separated from their point of origin. Subverting the functionalism of international shipping with the design language of architecture and furniture, Roth’s pallets are painstakingly inlaid with mother of pearl. These objects suggest …