THe World Flag Ant Farm (1990)
This piece was built for the Venice Biennale and consists of 170 national flags, each made of colored sand and filled with ants. Over the course of the exhibition the ants build a network of tunnels in each flag and travel to neighboring flags via a network of tubes. In doing so the ants move the colored sand around, breaking down the design (ie. the nation itself) and the borders between the nations.
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