Ouida Angelica Biddle / ORFICE

“Those colossal efforts of labour forced by an implacable will, are of the past, and such an architecture is not for us, nor for the future. What, then, will this art of the future be? The message will still be of nature and man… but all will be sweetness, simplicity, freedom, confidence, and light; the other is the past, and well is it, for its aim was to crush life: the new, the future, is to aid life ... so that beauty may flow into the soul like a breeze.” -W. R. Lethaby, Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth, 1892 We are developing a story about a sovereign settlement hidden in Hollywood, CA. We will be traveling to Bolivia and Germany to research current methods of communal survival.