The word "trappings" can refer to outward appearances - e.g. the "trappings of wealth or poverty". In this piece the trappings (Deputy Badges) are of Law & Order. But the word "trappings" is derived from the word "trap" & so beneath the body of the work there is an actual (mouse) trap with a photo of a boy. Is he trapped - trapped by our real practices concerning "law & order" and/or the color of his skin and perhaps by his cowboy fantasies & toy gun? He is going to need that lucky rabbit's footÂ