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Desert Breath






Description

The group D.A.ST. is an interdisciplinary collaboration between three artists: Danae Stratou, Sculptor, Alexandra Stratou, Industrial Designer, and Stella Constantinides, Architect. The group was formed in May 1995, based on our common desire to create an installation in the desert. The parameters that we had set for this project described a site specific work of such a scale that it would be experienced through walking. The site that was chosen is a flat expanse of sand that lies between the Red Sea and a body of mountains. The work covers an area of one hundred thousand square meters and involves the displacement of eight thousand cubic meters of sand. One hundred and seventy eight conical volumes form two interlocking logarithmic spirals that move out from a common center with a phase difference of one hundred and eighty degrees in the same direction of rotation. One spiral consists of incised cones, while the other of protruding ones; the incised cones are the result of the displacement of sand to create the protruding cones. The center, a one thousand two hundred cubic meters earthen vessel with a W section is the union of the positive and negative cone. It is filled with water to its rim so that the protruding cone in the center forms a tiny island at the level of the horizon.


ON MARCH 7 1997, THE CONSTRUCTION OF "DESERT BREATH" WAS COMPLETED.
AT SAME MOMENT THE WORK WAS TURNED OVER TO THE FORCES OF NATURE,
TO BEGIN THE SLOW PROCESS OF ITS ABSORBITION,
BY THE LANDSCAPE THAT GAVE BIRTH TO IT.
THE SYSTEMATIC DOCUMENTATION OF THIS PROCESS
IS AS IMPORTANT TO "DESERT BREATH"
AS THE DISPLACEMENT OF SAND THAT WAS USED TO CREATE IT.

THE INSTALLATION BECOMES THROUGH ITS SLOW DISINTEGRATION,
AN INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE THE PASSAGE OF TIME.