Desert Breath, Monumental Spiral Land Art in the Sahara Desert
“Desert Breath” is a monumental piece of land art in the Eastern Sahara Desert in Egypt that takes the form of 2 spirals emanating from a circular depression 100 feet in diameter. The installation occupies over a million square feet of desert and can be viewed from the air. Artist Danae Stratou, designer and architect Alexandra Stratou, and architect Stella Constantinides created the project between 1995 and 1997. It has since been left to slowly disintegrate.
Located between the sea and a body of mountains at the point where the immensity of the sea meets the immensity of the desert, the work functions on two different levels in terms of viewpoint: from above as a visual image, and from the ground, walking the spiral pathway, a physical experience.
images via Synaptic Stimuli
via Synaptic Stimuli
E.D.W. Lynch
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