Casey Gollan

@caseyagollan.com

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This photo shows a colorful banner sign behind a chain-link fence. The sign, which has a gradient background of blues, greens, and yellows, features large, bold text. Partially visible words include "OF ACCIDENTS", followed by "Rushing", "Frustration", "Fatigue", and "Complacency" in different colors, all leading to the message "DON'T GET HURT" at the bottom. The chain-link fence is prominent in the foreground, partially obscuring the text on the sign, and there's a concrete base visible below the fence.

The image shows a page from a book, held open by a hand visible at the bottom. The photo is somewhat grainy and slightly out of focus, with parts of the text obscured by what looks like light-colored highlighting or smudges.
The visible text appears to be from a book about gambling — specifically slot machine play. It includes an interview with a woman (her name partially obscured) who describes her relationship to the machines. Readable passages include her saying she’s “not playing to win,” but rather “to keep playing—to stay in that machine zone where nothing else matters.” She describes the machine zone as “like being in the eye of a storm… your vision is clear on the machine in front of you but the whole world is spinning around you… you’re with the machine and that’s all you’re with.”
In the upper-right corner there’s a black-and-white photograph labeled “Figure 1.1” showing what looks like a dense crowd or rows of slot machines.
Based on the content and the “machine zone” language, this looks like a page from Natasha Dow Schüll’s Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas.

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