1) The rat's nest installation, made entirely by the rats themselves, explores the friction between the prescriptive nature of externally enforced rules, and the liberating potential of internally imposed parameters.                                                                                                                   

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2) The current project is a culmination of hundreds of thousands of years of creating these experimental domestic and external structures. 3) The community, sited in the desert environment of Joshua Tree, California, was conceived as a sustainable space within, yet separate, from our increasingly regulated culture.          

4) Remaining in their indigenous landscape, they reveal at once the individuality of their creators and the simple clarity of the system as a whole.  

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