The "fruit machine" was a device developed in Canada by Frank Robert Wake in the 1950s that was supposed to be able to identify gay men (derogatorily referred to as "fruits"). Although funding for the project was cut off in the late 1960s, the investigations continued, and the RCMP collected files on 9,000 people who had been investigated.
Images of the actual machine don't exist, but the machine's output is clear: destroying the lives of LGBTQ people working for the Canadian government. The poster explores the idea of an unidentified destructive machine: a photo passes through an enigmatic blank area and reveals the machine's output through the visual allegory of another machine: a paper shredder.