Once a pioneer of the American Dream, the Gold Rush town of Bodie is now being kept in a state of “arrested decay”. Today, just like Bodie, the American Dream is being kept in a state of arrested decay. Access to education, homeownership, healthcare, healthy food and water, reproductive rights, and a proper living wage is still elusive to a large swath of the American population.The reflections in the windows of Bodie’s frail surviving structures are a metaphor for the state of the American Dream. The wavy antique glass reflections of scarred mining landscapes represent the flawed opportunities in today’s society, while the dusty and broken interiors stand in for the growing number of households left out of the American Dream.