created by british artist james ostrer, the house is lined with flip-flops collected from the beaches of nigeria. >> this door opens on hydraulic hinges. s is transformed into one of the great performance spaces, i think, on earth. and james was doing another installation with the flip-flops in new york a few months ago, and someone came up to him and said, "oh, someone's already done that in bombay beach." so that was the great validatiom that we haveon to the map. >> reporter: while bombay beach may have arrived in the art world and east jesus might have its accreditation, you are never far from the backdrop that allowed this to happen.d it's ht to-- i have very kind of apocalyptic feelings about all this. i mean, it's a frightening portrait of change, of an environment changing. >> yeah. >> reporter: is that too hyperbolic? >> not at all. th's like the closest thin i've seen to an environmentaly catastrophe infetime. and it's so tangible. it's right now. you can watch the sea going away. you can smell the problem. you can see the dead fish on the shore. like, it's just-- and it all