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The motif is built on such diverse precedents as Fred Wilson’s sharply researched interventions into the establishment framework of museum storerooms and Elliott Hundley’s dizzying collages of material pinned with long needles to panels, which position life’s scraps somewhere between exotic butterflies captured for close study and therapeutic visual acupuncture.

They are made using recycled materials including timber and plywood, fibreglass and even knitting needles.

“That’s why there are four needles.”

The Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve suffers from many of the ills that might be expected of a natural area located in the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, including litter and even biohazards such as discarded needles from nearby drug use.

Meanwhile, underground syringe exchanges and shooting galleries spawned across the country, with sterile needles, Narcan, wipes and bins at hand, all in violation of the 1986 “crackhouse statute” which outlaws premises used for illicit drug-taking.