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A Desert Life in a Home as Roadside AttractionAfter five years of living in the high desert near Joshua Tree National Park in California, the artist Andrea Zittel has begun to toy with the idea of turning her home into a roadside attraction.
"I've taken a lot of road trips and have always loved those places where you have to pay 75 cents to see carved stones or UFOs," she said.
"Besides, I'm so close to the highway that it just seems right."
While she has no UFOs for now, some of the objects designed by Zittel for her 1930s homesteader's cabin might well be described as alien.
There's her kitchen table, for example, into which she has carved small craters on either side to hold the food - no plates needed.
Or maybe the Raugh furniture dominating her living room - gray high-density foam that she has cut into a mountainous shape, with enough nooks and crannies to serve as a chair, desk and daybed in one.
Outside, you can imagine a line forming to try out her Wagon Stations, futuristic-looking steel sleeping pods planted in the dry, dusty landscape.
But the main attraction at A-Z West - as her home and workplace are known - would be Zittel herself.
"I know that opening my home like that would be impractical," she said, sitting at the dishless kitchen table and glancing at her 1-year-old son, Emmett, on the floor.
"But maybe one day in
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