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<\/a><\/p>\n“What a peaceful place to work.” April \u00a0says as she looks around the Flock House exhibit, which\u00a0offers room for\u00a0study and sketching. April works at the Main Omaha Public Library, where Alex Priest, exhibitions assistant at Bemis,<\/span>\u00a0curates\u00a0exhibits at the\u00a0Michael Phipps Gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n As soon as April finishes writing her responses to the 7 Questions, we talk about what she envisions in a Flock House.<\/p>\n April: Cisterns. I can imagine making a thing to let in rainwater, and then moving it closed when you have enough.\u00a0 There is a new source of water every time it rains.<\/p>\n April: Dakota needs to come here. He lives\u00a0this way; he knows how to do it, how to survive. I ask her how to bring him here. She answers, I don\u2019t know where to find him, but I will try.<\/p>\n April: The most important idea here is that you can make a house out of whatever you have. I have seen villages of displaced people who make homes, even of cardboard, and they become a village.<\/p>\n April:\u00a0Another important idea is not feeling the need to fix things up.\u00a0Still,\u00a0I still think there is a need to make it your own. (With a Flock House\u00a0being\u00a0self-sufficient) you can show how clever you were. How you solved the problem of getting\u00a0electricity and water. Some would really feel that need for invention, to just create.\u00a0 Others would want theirs\u00a0as cute as it could be.<\/p>\n April:\u00a0In a flock of these houses, I would expect enormous handcrafted diversity. Astonishing invention. Yet, sharing the knowledge of these inventions with one another.<\/p>\n April is on her lunch hour, and only has a moment to enter the Flock House and make a quick sketch.<\/p>\n