One-off toaster

This is a work I made around 2000 for a class in electronics in art. I attached light bulbs to the bottom of the toaster (inside) and when the button was pushed down, usually turning the toaster on, the lights came on instead. I had a translucent red gel over the slots so a diffuse red glow resulted. The image of the gagged man on the side was sandblasted on. On the other side it had "STOP ME." The man is a found image which I've used a couple of other times (here and here). I've thought that if I ever got a tattoo I would use this image. I like it because it's so ambiguous - Is it someone held captive? Is it about censorship? Self-censorship?