As an environmental public installation, Small Country: Few People makes use of recycled materials in the form of plaster and barbed wire. The work itself is composed of 36 organic shapes—all different in form and size—set within an enclosed space. Each of the 36 shapes has an opening, a passage through which it communicates with its neighbors.
Taken together, the shapes are a miniature social framework, forming a primitive community, or a village life reminiscent of the earliest days of civilization—a metaphor for the need to cherish the Earth’s natural resources.